Written by Alex Brevil A 52 y/o woman w/ fibromyalgia is found alone in her room in a confused state by her maid. She recently lost all of her retirement money and constantly “Blames Obama.” She is then rushed to…
Tox Craze
PE or not PE, that is the question…
Written by Randi Ozaki …and probably one of the more annoying clinical questions that we’re faced with in the ED. PERC (pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria), D-dimer and Well’s criteria have been discussed ad nauseam,…
EM-CCM Hematology 7/22/2015:Treating DIC
Presented by: Dr. Andrew Nguyen Summarized by: Dr. Wendy Chan Reviewed by: Dr. Ian deSouza The Fictitious Case: 81 y/o F with PMH HTN, DM, CVA, afib, CAD, and recent hospitalization presents with 1 week of generalized weakness, nausea w/o…
IN THE STRETCHER INSTEAD OF BESIDE IT
Welcome to my first blog post, otherwise known as The Space for a Longtime Repressed Writer. I approached our editors about writing some sort of “human interest/lessons learned” blog to complement the multitude of great educational posts and interesting ED…
Rhythm Nation- July 2015 ANSWER
Here is the EKG: The first interpretation would be to figure out the differential diagnosis for a regularly irregular rhythm in coupled beats. Without looking into more rare causes of coupled beats, the common causes includes atrial bigeminy, ventricular bigeminy,…
Popping Bottles
It’s a busy day in the Emergency Department and you pick up a patient sent from clinic to “r/o appendicitis.” He is tachycardic and appears uncomfortable with moderate RLQ abdominal tenderness. Your attending tells you to give the patient some oral…