As with most complaints in Emergency Medicine, headaches are usually benign and self-limited conditions. Occasionally, however, the etiology can be potentially devastating, particularly in post-partum patients...
Read moreSubmitted by Sydney Tabaac, MD
Your patient is seizing, your benzo didn't work, what's next?
Knowing your action plan for a patient in status epilepticus is crucial. Preparation = success! Review this chart until you've got a 1st, 2nd & 3rd line medication, with doses, always ready in your mind. If you've got this down already, how about for pediatrics?
Read moreSubmitted by Kristen Adorno, MD
Dialysis can be too much of a good thing.
Read moreSubmitted by Morgan Oskutis, MD
The YEARS Algorithm: A clinical decision tool that incorporates differential D-Dimer cutoff values at presenation, developed to be fast and reduce the number of CTPA investigations
Read moreSubmitted by Aimee Parks, MD
A 25 yo female presents with a complaint of abdominal cramping and heavy vaginal bleeding. This is a routine complaint in the Emergency Department and rarely represents a life-threatening emergency....until it does...
Read moreSubmitted by Sydney Tabaac, MD
Back to STATISTICS basics... a brief review of likelihood ratios for those of us who routinely forget how to use them
Read moreSubmitted by Christopher Smith, MD
A patient comes to the ED with dyspnea and is treated with a checkpoint inhibitor - what is that?
Read moreSubmitted by Lars-Kristofer Peterson, MD