emDOCs Podcast – Episode 63: Spinal Epidural Abscess
The emDOCs podcast returns with spinal epidural abscess.
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Spinal Epidural Abscess: Challenges to Diagnosis and How to Improve
Spinal epidural abscess is a challenging diagnosis. How can we improve?
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Medical Malpractice Insights: Another missed spinal epidural abscess?
Spinal epidural abscess can be challenging to diagnose, but sometimes, you just need to consider it.
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Medical Malpractice Insights: We’re Doctors, not Prophets…
This month’s case is another reminder to think of spinal epidural abscess in back pain patients. Doing the right thing, while not always keeping one from getting sued, will (almost always) keep a jury on your side. We are not responsible for foreseeing the future.
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The EM Educator Series: Sneaky Back Pain
Welcome back to the EM educator series. This week we cover the difficult diagnosis of spinal epidural abscess with a case, considerations, and #FOAMed resources.
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A Case of Lower Extremity Weakness and a Recent Neck Wound
An interesting case of a patient with lower extremity weakness in the setting of a recent neck wound? Learn more about this curious case and can’t miss diagnosis.
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EM Cases: Lower Back Pain Emergencies
In this episode we go through seven cases that display the breadth of presentations of limb or life threatening causes of low back pain emergencies with my huge mentors, Dr. Walter Himmel and Dr. Brian Steinhart. We cover everything from spinal epidural abscess to cauda equina syndrome to retroperitoneal bleeds, elucidating the key historical, physical exam, lab, imaging and treatment pearls for all of these diagnoses. We then go on to review the best management for the most common cause of back pain presentation, lumbosacral strain and debate the various medication options.
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Core EM: Spinal Epidural Abscess
Learn the basics of this Core EM topic!
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Spinal Epidural Abscess
“Once the classic symptoms appear and a definitive diagnosis is made, the very symptoms we look for have often become irreversible”
- Spinal epidural abscess is an extremely rare diagnosis but a potentially devastating one.
- It has proven to be a difficult ER diagnosis.
- Unfortunately, once the classic symptoms appear and a definitive diagnosis is made, the very symptoms we look for have often become irreversible.
- How can we change the way we evaluate for SEA in order to minimize diagnostic delay and thereby decrease morbidity/mortality?
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