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• Five Things to Keep in Mind When Treating an Asthmatic

  Image from Alan Levine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Puja Gopal, MD Emergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoAAEM/RSA Publications Committee Member Asthmatic patients present along a broad spectrum of severity. There are those who present with mild wheezing, have complete resolution with a single neb treatment, and go home with […]
• Pre- and Post-Intubation Issues and Solutions

  Photo Credit: Borls Ott – Flickr This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Andrew V. Bokarius, MDEmergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Chicago There are a number of issues that may come up prior to, during, and after successful intubation. Let’s take a look at a few common problems and possible solutions.  Pre-intubation: Can’t mask […]
• A Cannot Miss Cause of Bradycardia

  This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Daniel Balk, MD Emergency Medicine Resident Drexel University College of MedicineThe Case: The tech hands the physician this EKG: It’s slow with a rate of 37, it’s irregular, it’s wide with a QRS of 130, it’s scary, and there is no previous EKG. The tech doesn’t […]
• Tourniquet Application for Isolated Extremity Injuries

  Image Credit: Staff Sgt. Terri Reece Author: Kaylinn Dokken, OMS4 Western University of Health Sciences This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. As we walk onto the scene wearing our bulletproof vests, we see a spray of blood up the white wall of the apartment, leading us to our patient. He is holding direct […]
• Recovering from Leg Day: Rhabdomyolysis in the Emergency Department

  Image Credit: Image from James Heilman, MD This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Jeffrey Chen, MSIIIUniversity of California San Francisco Case: A previously healthy 18-year-old male comes in to the pediatric emergency department complaining of severe bilateral soreness and weakness of quadriceps and dark tea-colored urine for 1 day. Yesterday at the […]
• Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity – Is Fat The New “Wonder Drug?”

  Image Credit: Photo by NIH: https://flic.kr/p/nQg4F7 Author: Jonathan Morgan, MSIVLake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton The provision of local and regional anesthesia is a core part of emergency medicine. Toxicity as a result of the administration of local anesthetics is exceedingly rare, but it does occur, and may even be more common than malignant hyperthermia.[1] […]
• Hepatic Encephalopathy Meets the ED

  Image credit: Tareq Salahuddin This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Alfred Morrobel, MS3Medical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana Introduction & Pathophysiology Hepatic encephalopathy (HE), also known as portosystemic encephalopathy, is a potentially deadly complication of chronic liver failure. HE is commonly caused by liver failure due to cirrhosis, but there are non-cirrhotic causes as well. Cirrhosis […]
• Emergency Medicine Match: 2015 Results

  Image Credit: Photo by AJC ajcann.wordpress.com Author: Muhammad Alghanem, DOMidwestern University – Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Congratulations to all the medical school seniors and graduates who matched into emergency medicine in 2015 and good luck to the upcoming 2016 applicants! Both NRMP [1] and AOA [2] […]
• Save a Life: Know the Precious P’s of Rapid Sequence Intubation

  Photo: Wikimedia Commons Author: Valery Victoria Rivas Cuesta, MSVIMedical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Medicine An emergency physician’s failure to secure the airway can rapidly lead to death or disability. In the emergency setting, patients are assumed to have a full stomach and be at risk for aspiration. Often, rapid-sequence intubation (RSI) represents the preferred […]
• Calling Consultations from the Emergency Department

  Photo by NEC Corporation: https://flic.kr/p/nJ7P9M Author: Andrew W Phillips, MD MEdStanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program You will be judged by your consultations. Period. The best evidence we have for handling emergency department (ED) consultations supports the use of the “5 C’s of consultation,” which was shown to be helpful in a randomized, controlled trial.[1] 1) […]

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