Cardiac ablation seems straightforward, but what complications can we see in the ED?
Kirkland, Washington was the first U.S. city with reports of a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19 is a global pandemic. This post focuses on management of the critically ill patient with COVID-19 by discussing the recently published Society of Critical Care Medicine and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines.
While community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is ‘bread and butter’ emergency medicine, and the diagnosis is often a ‘slam dunk’, it turns out that up one third of the time, we are wrong about the diagnosis; that x-rays are not perfect; that blood work is seldom helpful; that not all antibiotics ...
Learn some of the latest updates of what matters in sepsis from this post from EM Cases!
How do you evaluate for suspected pleural effusion, and what tools do you have for diagnosis and therapy?
The patient in extremis with cardiogenic shock... This post from Madison Daly and Skyler Lentz breaks down the evaluation of this challenging condition.
Burn and inhalation injury patients present to the ED more often than one might think, with a staggering half a million annual visits in the USA alone. It turns out that for all burn patients—from minor to severe—there is a lot of room for improvement in ED management, counselling and disposition.
