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Why Will This Baby Not Stop Crying?
Image Credit: Flickr, Photo by Tatiana Vdb Author: Josh Bowers, DO Emergency Medicine Resident Adena Regional Medical Center This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. It is 3:00 am and a mother brings in her crying infant. The mother seems to be at a loss and states: “Nothing I do will make him stop […] -
Stingray Injuries in the Emergency Department
Image Credit: Photo by Hohum on Wikimedia Commons Author: Jeff Chen, MSIII UCSF School of Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. My first encounter with marine envenomations was in 9th grade. Wading out into the ocean to catch a wave, I felt a sharp pain in my left foot that shot up […] -
ACE-Inhibitor Induced Angioedema
Author: Kaylinn Dokken, MSIIIMedical StudentWestern University of Health Sciences This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. ACE inhibitor (ACEi) induced angioedema is a potentially life-threatening complication of a very common class of medications, and is something every emergency physician should be prepared to manage. I personally witnessed three cases on a recent ICU rotation, […] -
Emergency Contraception in the Emergency Department
Author: Matthew Rosen, MSIVMedical Student Georgetown School of Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Between the years 2006 and 2010 11% of women reported using emergency contraception at some point in their life; of those, 59% used emergency contraception once and almost a quarter used it twice.[2] Emergency contraception is any contraceptive […] -
Warfarin and Bridging – A Conundrum
Author: Meaghan Mercer, DOEmergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Nevada School of MedicineAAEM/RSA Immediate Past President This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. The following blog post appeared initially at www.lasvegasemr.com/foam-blog and is reproduced with the permission of the author. Case: A 40-year-old female presents to the emergency department with a chief complaint of three days […] -
In-Flight Emergencies
Author: Kenneth Young, MDEmergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Chicago This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Hearing the words “Is there a doctor on the plane?” may strike fear or excitement into your heart as an emergency physician (or a welcome feeling of relief as you squeeze out of a cramped middle seat). What are […] -
Management of Suicide Attempts in the Emergency Department
Photo Credit: Pixabay Author: Felix Matos Padilla, MSVMedical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Suicide is by far the most common cause of premature death among patients with major mood and psychotic disorders.[1] Attempted suicide is defined as a nonfatal self-inflicted destructive act with the explicit or […] -
Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Author: Meaghan Mercer, DOEmergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Nevada School of MedicineAAEM/RSA Immediate Past President This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. A 19 year old otherwise healthy female presents to the ED with five weeks of changed behavior with increasing agitation, paranoia, violent behavior, and facial tics. The patient has no psychiatric history and […] -
Cardiac Infarctions Under Disguise
This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Joshua Bowers, DO Emergency Medicine ResidentAdena Regional Medical Center Ischemic heart disease and coronary artery disease (CAD) are two of the leading causes of death among adults in developed countries.[6] Patients with these disorders can present to the emergency department with problems that fall anywhere along […] -
Management of Upper GI Bleed in the Emergency Department
Author: Aimee Almanzar, MSIVMedical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Introduction to Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Bleed Upper GI bleeding is a potentially life-threatening hemorrhage originating anywhere along the GI tract from the esophagus to the level of the ligament of Treitz. Bleeding from the upper GI tract is four times more […]
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