EM@3AM – Ankle Sprains
Let’s take a minute to review a common sports related injury: the ankle sprain.
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EM@3AM – Calcium Channel Blocker Toxicity
Calcium channel blocker toxicity: When is it time to consider lipid emulsion therapy? Take a look at this week’s post for a brief review.
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Fever of Unknown Origin
What do you do with the pediatric patient with fever of unknown origin? Is it infection, immunologic, drug fever, a malignancy? Dr. Sean Fox gives you what you need to know on pediatric fever of unknown origin.
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Tox Cards: Mushrooms
This week’s toxcard is on mushrooms! Yummy. Enjoy.
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The Reign of the “Pan-Scan”: Whole Body CT vs. Selective Imaging in Trauma
The Pan-Scan has become common in the evaluation of trauma patients. But does it affect patient outcomes, most importantly mortality?
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EM Mindset: Occupational Wellness
This week’s EM Mindset by Elise Lovell looks at Occupational Wellness and maintaining our humanism in emergency medicine.
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EM@3AM – Cocaine Toxicity
Cocaine abuse and abdominal pain: which complications should you be concerned for? Let’s take a look at cocaine toxicity.
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EM@3AM – Symptomatic Bradycardia
An 11 year-old-male presents with dizziness. His resting heart rate is 48 bpm. Should symptomatic bradycardia be on your differential diagnosis?
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CORE EM: Severe Hyponatremia
Severe hyponatremia is a significant electrolyte abnormality. Check out this CORE EM post by Anand Swaminathan on its evaluation and management.
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Euglycemic DKA Secondary to SGLT2 inhibitors
DKA classically presents with hyperglycemia, presence of ketones, acidosis, anion gap, and low serum bicarbonate. What about DKA with normal or slightly elevated blood glucose? This post evaluates the new SGLT2 inhibitors and euglycemic DKA.
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