EM Beats by Doge: Serious Headaches
Jonas Pologe is back with the EM Beats by Doge series. Today, Dr. Pologe brings you serious headaches.
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Neurology
EM@3AM: Multiple Sclerosis
A 33-year-old female presents with blurry vision. She has also experienced intermittent paresthesias in her extremities and weakness. Your motor and sensory exam is normal, but you find internuclear ophthalmoplegia and an afferent pupillary defect. With these intermittent neurologic symptoms and ocular findings, what is the likely diagnosis, and what is your next step in evaluation?
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Diplopia Evaluation and Management
Diplopia can be confusing… How do you define monocular versus binocular? What’s the appropriate evaluation and management?
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The Patient Acutely Can’t Walk: Pearls and Pitfalls
What should you consider with the patient who can’t walk?
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis
This month’s case from Chuck Pilcher looks at a challenging diagnosis in a patient with neurologic symptoms but no known risk factors for a potentially dangerous disease.
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Headaches in the Postpartum Period
Headache may be common in many populations, but what do you need to consider in the postpartum period? This post from Marina Boushra looks at postpartum headaches.
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EM Cases: ED Stroke Management in the Age of Endovascular Therapy
Which patients need what type of scanning? Where should that scanning be done – at the stroke center or at the peripheral center? Which patients should get systemic thrombolytics? Which patients should get endovascular therapy? In this EM Cases main episode podcast, a follow up to our episode on TIA released in November 2018 with Walter Himmel and David Dushenski, we try to simplify the confusing time-based and brain tissue-based options for stroke management…
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Sentinel headache and missed cerebral aneurysm
Breakdowns in communication can cause all sorts of problems. This month’s Medical Malpractice Insights looks at a case of failure to communicate.
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EM Beats by Doge: Vertigo – Central or Peripheral
Today’s EM Beats by Doge brings you vertigo.
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CORE EM: Approach to Adult First Time Seizure in the ED
What’s your approach to an adult first time seizure? Check out this CORE EM post for a review.
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