You have a patient with respiratory distress due to severe pneumonia. What should you do? Do you intubate immediately, place the patient on noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or high flow nasal cannula? This post from Dr. Lentz and colleagues explores your options.
We shouldn’t have to know how to recognize them, but…
We need to be familiar with how vaccine-preventable illnesses present, the basics of management, and how to talk with the misinformed or unconvinced.
PEM Playbook – Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses: Part 1 Read More »
How do you evaluate and manage acute hearing loss in the ED? This post provides you with tips, pearls, and pitfalls.
ED Management of Acute Hearing Loss: Pearls and Pitfalls Read More »
Genitourinary trauma can present significant challenges. This post provides updates in the evaluation and management of patients with GU trauma.
Genitourinary Trauma: Presentations, Evaluation, and Management Updates Read More »
Remember Huntington’s Disease? This post provides you with the key information concerning this disease for EM.
Huntington’s disease: ED presentations, evaluation, and management Read More »
Emergency clinicians are well-versed in the evaluation and management of heart failure, but sometimes the underlying cause of the heart failure exacerbation isn’t so easy to determine.
Heart Failure: “Sneaky” Triggers and Clinical Pearls Read More »
Generalized weakness in the elderly patient is probably not your favorite chief complaint to evaluate, but these patients could be experiencing a life-threatening condition. What do you need to consider in these patients?
Generalized Non-Focal Weakness in the Elderly Read More »
This edition of Quality Corner brings you two cases: one with flu-like illness, and the other with back pain. Ready for some thyroid storm and aortoiliac occlusive disease?
Quality Corner – Thyroid Storm and Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease Read More »
How do you evaluate and manage the patient with refractory seizures? This post from Anthony DeVivo and Jenny Beck-Esmay provides pearls and pitfalls for the care of the patient with refractory seizures.
Refractory Status Epilepticus: Pearls and Pitfalls for the Resuscitation Room Read More »
The Trauma Chameleon, or the medical emergency disguised as trauma… What should you be on the lookout for?
Medical Emergencies Disguised as Trauma, or “Trauma Chameleons” Read More »