ED Management of Acute Hearing Loss: Pearls and Pitfalls
How do you evaluate and manage acute hearing loss in the ED? This post provides you with tips, pearls, and pitfalls.
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practice updates
Genitourinary Trauma: Presentations, Evaluation, and Management Updates
Genitourinary trauma can present significant challenges. This post provides updates in the evaluation and management of patients with GU trauma.
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Huntington’s disease: ED presentations, evaluation, and management
Remember Huntington’s Disease? This post provides you with the key information concerning this disease for EM.
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Heart Failure: “Sneaky” Triggers and Clinical Pearls
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.
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Generalized Non-Focal Weakness in the Elderly
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?
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Quality Corner – Thyroid Storm and Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease
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?
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Refractory Status Epilepticus: Pearls and Pitfalls for the Resuscitation Room
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.
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Medical Emergencies Disguised as Trauma, or “Trauma Chameleons”
The Trauma Chameleon, or the medical emergency disguised as trauma… What should you be on the lookout for?
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Ultrasound G.E.L. – Multiorgan Ultrasound for Pulmonary Embolism
The emDOCs team is happy to be reposting Ultrasound G.E.L. content in their never ending coverage of evidence based ultrasonography (EBU). In this post, does combining multiple POCUS for PE make for a more accurate exam?
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Infections Requiring Surgical Intervention
Most bacterial infections just need time and some antibiotics, but what infections require surgical intervention?
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