With all the new stroke literature, how can you keep track of everything? Fortunately, the AHA/ASA recently published the 2018 ischemic strokes guidelines. This post provides emergency medicine-focused highlights of the updated guidelines.
Welcome back to Quality Corner, a series that evaluates tough cases with potential areas for improvement. This month's Quality Corner covers cases involving perianal/perirectal abscess and pneumomediastinum.
Welcome back to Part II of the series on vasopressors. Part I discussed basic guidelines for pressor use, in addition to specific literature regarding “inopressors” (norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dobutamine). Part II will discuss “pure inotropes” (dobutamine and milrinone) and “pure vasopressors” (vasopressin and phenylephrine).
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) was created to improve evaluation and management of traumatic injuries. Unfortunately, the literature often outpaces guidelines. This 10th edition provides several important updates for clinicians managing trauma.
A 44-year-old female comes to the ED with left lower extremity swelling. The patient notes increased swelling and discoloration to her entire left leg for three days, associated with aching pain. In a patient without any risk factors for thrombus or any other medical reason for hypercoagulability, what could cause an unprovoked left lower extremity thrombus?
Ready for some updates on the evaluation and management of syncope? Read on for the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Clinical Policy updates.
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.
Welcome to this edition of emDocs Cases. This will be a case-based discussion of EM topics, ranging from core to cutting edge and controversial. This post evaluates something all-too-common in emergency medicine: the agitated patient.
