Dizziness is a common chief complaint with a large differential ranging from benign to a life-threatening bleed. How should you approach the patient with dizziness, and what do you need to consider?
Your shift starts and all of your patients are bleeding! There is an MVC victim with a tense abdomen and traumatic brain injury, a patient with an upper GI bleed, a woman whose spontaneous vaginal delivery has turned into a post-partum hemorrhage, and a brisk epistaxis in the back hallway. You tha...
We've all heard the horror stories of the crashing aortic stenosis patient. These patients present significant challenges in the ED. How can you best manage these patients?
Female abdominal pain possesses a large differential with several key diagnoses. Ovarian torsion is one such diagnosis. What are the keys in presentation, diagnosis, and management of ovarian torsion?
Lactate clearance has been a major focus in care of the septic patient. Why does lactate elevate in these patients, and what do you need to know for managing these patients?
It is essential for Emergency Physicians to know the standard of care for sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatments, as patients often present to Emergency Departments for evaluation and treatment shortly after exposure to these diseases. The Emergency Department provides patients with rapid screening, diagnosis, treatment regimens, and access to outpatient follow up.
Welcome to the third blog post in a series on subtle ECG findings in ACS. This post about mimics: benign early repolarization (BER) and the anterior STEMI. Each of these can mimic the other. The problem is that one of these diagnoses is deadly and the other is a normal variant.
What if you could identify a patient with complete coronary vessel occlusion almost immediately after it occurs, before the ST segments begin to elevate? What if you could pick up the very subtle, early MI? We know that early recognition and intervention improves outcomes in patients with coronary a...
