Category Name: practice updates

practice updates

Adrenal Crisis in the ED

A summary on the etiologies of adrenal insufficiency and crisis, with pearls and pitfalls in diagnosis and management.

practice updates

Simplicity and Entropy in Emergency Medicine

The job of an Emergency Physician (EP) is difficult. Every shift we balance the difficulties of making a decision with suboptimal information and resources amidst a sea of chaos. From a cognitive point of view, the main job of an EP is to organize the information in the Emergency Department (ED) to make safe and appropriate interventions and disposition decisions.