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practice updates

Intern Report Collection

To kick off your weekend reading pleasure, here’s another batch of our monthly excellent write-ups from the EM interns at UT Southwestern (@DallasEMed) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai courtesy of Alex Koyfman (@EMHighAK) and Stephen Alerhand (@SAlerhand) . Our ongoing intern report ser...

clinical cases

Oncologic Emergencies Part II: Pearls and Pitfalls

Case 1: A 55 year-old male with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia complains of fatigue, headache, shortness of breath, and blurry vision for the past four days. His exam is normal, but laboratory results show a WBC of 155,000, with differential showing elevated blasts. Chest Xray shows the following: