Is the use of oral contrast for abdominal CT still necessary?

Case 1: A 73 year-old male presents with several weeks of cough, facial swelling, and shortness of breath. He has a history of lung cancer, actively being treated with radiation and chemotherapy. On exam, his vital signs are normal, but he has swelling of the face with a violaceous hue and elevated...

The mechanical man - pearls and pitfalls in the management of the patient with an LVAD. What do you need to know?

A 42 year-old female with poorly controlled type II diabetes presents with several days of fatigue, headache, fever to 102F, and sinus pressure. She does not regularly check her blood glucose, with her last check at 320. Initial vital signs show a blood pressure of 155/92, heart rate of 92, oxygen ...

It’s a crazy night in the ED, and you are about four hours into your shift. You have just received a new patient with chief complaint of altered mental status coming in via EMS.

In the febrile HIV patient, there are many diagnostic dilemmas and potential life-threatening disease processes which make the diagnosis and treatment difficult. When approaching these patients, it is useful to separate complications into organ systems and then try to estimate the patient's immune status if it is not known.

A review of how to resuscitate a pregnant patient in the midst of medical catastrophe and how to rapidly estimate gestational age

When a young female patient threatens to 'knock you out' for exposing her to CT radiation, you are left with only one option for visualizing and extracting a pleural effusion.