practice updates

Does routine use of US during morning rounds on all patients improve patient outcomes?

What do you need to know in the evaluation and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy? This post gives you the needed information and literature updates.

Influenza affects up to 20% of the U.S. population every year. How do you evaluate and manage the patient with suspected influenza? What should you consider in the critical, toxic patient?

When is the pelvic exam needed in the ED? This post looks at the evidence behind the pelvic exam and provides several key considerations.

Hepatic encephalopathy is associated with a variety of etiologies. This post explores the mechanism of hepatic encephalopathy, as well as missed precipitants of HE in cirrhosis and treatment pearls for the ED.

How often does CT miss PE? Who is at future risk of PE after negative CTPA? What about the risk of DVT after a negative US study? This post from Anne Flower and Amy Zeidan evaluate some key questions in the evaluation of PE and DVT.

What’s your approach to an adult first time seizure? Check out this CORE EM post for a review.

Few good sentences start with ‘remember that patient?’. Missed injuries are the bane of the emergency physician’s existence. This post evaluates risk factors and ways to avoid missing vital injuries in trauma patients.

We assess and manage patients with asthma exacerbation frequently, but the specific trigger may not be readily apparent. What are some sneaky triggers of asthma exacerbation?

What alternatives do you have for procedural sedation in shoulder reductions? This US Probe post looks at the US-guided interscalene nerve block.