Young patient or old...every emergency physician has come across these questions: Should I send a troponin for supraventricular tachycardia, or not? If I do, what does it mean if it comes back elevated? What comes next?
What do you think of with the patient presenting with fever, headache, and focal neurologic signs? Meningitis? Encephalitis? What about brain abscess? This post is filled with pearls and pitfalls on the pathogenesis, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of brain abscess.
How do you care for the crashing trauma patient? This post takes you through the critical resuscitation step-by-step.
As you start to move along in residency, you will soon find out: if you cannot achieve difficult intravenous access on your own, there is no one behind you who can. This is a skill that must be mastered.
Common postpartum emergencies include hemorrhage, infections, hypertension, preeclampsia/eclampsia, and headache. HELLP and peripartum cardiomyopathy are rare postpartum complications. This article reviews the presentation of these emergencies and how they are properly diagnosed and managed in the emergency department.
Having difficulty deciding between procedural sedation agents in your pediatric patients? Read on: we provide a focused review of commonly utilized medications, with tips and tricks on how to cater your personal sedation practice to the clinical scenario.
We are masters of the airway, often managing life-threatening scenarios and conditions. However, the patient who decompensates around the time of intubation, or directly after the procedure, can be frightening. What can you do to mimize these events?
DAH is a medical emergency characterized by bleeding of pulmonary microvasculature into the alveoli. Symptoms are non-specific and clinicians should keep a high clinical suspicion for the disorder. Protecting the airway takes precedence. Immunosuppressive medications are the mainstay of medical therapy.
