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 post looks at hyperacute T waves.
How do you manage the patient with acute hypoxemia and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema? Could it be ARDS? This post looks at ARDS in the ED.
Your next patient is a 17-year-old male you had seen one week before for fever and congestion, diagnosed with a viral upper respiratory infection. He returns this time for nasal congestion, severe frontal headache, fevers, sore throat, and nasal drainage. When he looks around the room, he gets d...
Welcome to the new ECG Pointers, an EMDocs series designed to give you high yield tips about ECGs to keep your interpretation skills sharp. Today, we look at pericarditis.
NSAIDs, acetaminophen, steroids, triptans, antidopaminergics, oxygen, IV fluids, diphenhydramine... What's in your "headache cocktail"? This emDocs post looks at the evidence behind treatment of headaches in the ED.
Learn more about CSF shunt complications in detail with this extensive review.
The EKG is an indispensable tool in the ED, especially for cardiac ischemia. What conditions may appear to be a NSTEMI, but are in fact something else?
Doesn't that patient with flank pain and hematuria just have a kidney stone? What else should you consider in the patient with suspected urolithiasis?
