Rural EM: PREOXI Trial Protocol In Rural Life

We hear about contrast-induced nephropathy all the time. We tell patients about it. We often need their consent. Radiology calls us to make sure administering contrast is okay. But is it as bad as we think? How do we proceed?

Winter is coming...well maybe not yet, but you never know when you will see your next drowning or hypothermic patient will enter your ED, so be prepared! Check out the latest pearls on hypothermia and drowning!

We know that all bleeding eventually stops: ideally, by means that we have imposed rather than by exhaustion of the patient’s RBC resources. We also know that the easiest, and often most efficacious, way to halt bleeding is to put some manual pressure on the source of bleeding. Well, that

It’s a crazy night in the ED, and you are about four hours into your shift. You have just received a new patient with chief complaint of altered mental status coming in via EMS.

Primer on emergency department evaluation of patients taking novel oral anticoagulants