Cardiogenic Shock: Emergency Department-Focused Management
How should you evaluate and manage the patient with cardiogenic shock?
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Dangerous Causes of Nausea/Vomiting Beyond the GI System
What are deadly causes of nausea and vomiting beyond the GI system, and what do emergency clinicians need to know?
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Medical Malpractice Insights: How did this MI get missed?
Anchoring bias and a missed myocardial infarction… This month’s Medical Malpractice Insights brings you a tough case.
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Ultrasound G.E.L. – Speckle Tracking for Acute Coronary Syndrome
If you haven’t heard of speckle tracking on echocardiography – it is a pretty cool idea. So maybe this Speckle Tracking echocardiography (STE) would be of use as a point-of-care study to help identify patients that need more emergent revascularization when acute coronary syndrome is suspected.
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PEM Playbook – MI in Children
Myocardial infarction (MI) in children is uncommon, but underdiagnosed.
This is due to two main factors: the etiologies are varied; and the presenting symptoms are “atypical”.
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