Brought to you by Dr. Michelle DiMare Also titled: US vs H&P Welcome to yet another exciting installment of our awesome ultrasound blog! For this post, “Name that Tune” rules apply and I challenge you to “name that…
This is a fictitious patient seen at a fictitious hospital called Janus General. Don’t believe me? I’m on staff there – see 54 yo male, past medical history HTN, sent by his primary doctor to the ED for “rule…
Our excellent Critical Care Medicine Mini-Fellowship met last week for our monthly meeting where we actually had an inter-departmental and inter-disciplinary presence to discuss cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient. We reviewed three articles which I have summarized for you…
For those of you not there, you missed a doozy today. Besides some board review and M&M, we had a great senior lecture by Dr. Sadia Hussain, a EM-CCM lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Abram (the summary of which will be…
Male hipster presents – bicyclist struck. He is 22 years old, lives in Williamsburg, and arrives wearing really tight pants and an ironic mustache. He reports pelvic pain and reports he fell off the seat onto his handlebars. He reports…
By Dr. Brenda Oiyemhonlan The last Health Policy Mini-Fellowship meeting discussed “safe harbors”, which can be defined as a set of clinical guidelines that define negligence and appropriate care in the ED. While safe harbors can protect ER docs…
By Dr. Jacqueline Shibata A 35 y/o with Lupus presents to the ED with 1 day of chest pain…. The worst because, as we all know, systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is an autoimmune rheumatologic disease that can be deadly…
60 yo M, unrestrained driver in MVA, no airbags, no LOC, no head trauma, complaining of chest pain – midline, reproducible to palpation, worse on moving. VS 120, 96/47, 22, 100% Trauma labs are sent, portable CXR and Pelvis Xray…