EM Educator Series: Challenging Diagnosis of Cardiogenic Shock
This week’s EM Educator evaluates the challenging and anxiety-provoking diagnosis of cardiogenic shock.
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ECG Pointers: Posterior MI
Welcome to this week’s ECG Pointers, an emDOCs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. This week we discuss how to identify a posterior STEMI, which can commonly be mistaken as a NSTEMI.
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The EM Educator Series: The Aortic Stenosis Patient
Welcome to this week’s EM Educator Series. Today we have a case of the sick aortic stenosis patient, followed by questions and key references.
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The EM Educator Series: Sepsis in the ED
Welcome back to The EM Educator Series! These posts provide brief mini-cases followed by key questions to consider while working and educating. Today we look at several components of sepsis evaluation and management in the ED, followed by key references.
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The EM Educator Series: Why did the patient with alcohol dependence stop drinking?
Welcome to The EM Educator Series. These posts provide brief mini-cases followed by key questions to consider while working. The featured questions provide important learning points for those working with you, as well as vital items to consider in the evaluation and management of the specific condition discussed. This first post discusses several components of alcohol use in the ED.
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EM Mindset: Reading My Mind
Today’s EM Mindset comes from EM Legend Dr. Judith Tintinalli, who provides important pearls on emergency medicine and education.
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EM@3AM – Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Welcome to EM@3AM, an emdocs series designed to foster your working knowledge by providing an expedited review of clinical basics. We’ll keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp.
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The Road to Academic Emergency Medicine
The decision between academic and community medicine can be difficult. Many who enter academic EM feel unprepared. This post discusses the difference between academic and community EM, and if you are interested in academic EM, pearls on succeeding in academics.
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Healthy Patients with Potential to Crash
Well appearing patients who present to the emergency department (ED) rarely have serious disease. However, there are some conditions that can cause otherwise healthy patients to rapidly deteriorate. This article reviews a few conditions that can affect otherwise healthy patients and how to diagnose and treat these patients in the ED.
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FOAMed Resources Part VII: Medical Education and Simulation
All physicians are teachers. However, becoming a great teacher does not occur overnight, and in the stressful setting of the ED, it can be difficult to educate those around you. This part of the FOAMed series looks at resources geared towards education and simulation.
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