ECG STEMI Basics Please describe: 1. What and where the pathology is 2. Where you would see reciprocal changes 3. Which artery is blocked, and 4. What other ECG’s are indicated. By Dr. Brenda Oiyemhonlan, Dr. Andrew…
Category: Board Review
Bored Review: 2/3/2015-EKG Changes that make you go hmmm.
A 54-year-old female with diabetes, hypertension, end-stage renal disease on dialysis presents to the ED after “Snowmageddon” with a complaint of generalized weakness. She answers questions, but seems slightly confused. While awaiting for the initial vital signs, you feel her…
It’s Too Blizzardly to be Bored Review
Samwise Gamgee presents to your Emergency Department after an ankle injury. He was in the Mines of Moria when a flock of bats flew all around him and he fell, twisting his ankle. He doesn’t think he got any bites…
Bored Review: 1/20/2015…environmental but not a snakebite.
Whew! We made it to the last week of Environmental Emergencies. I thought that it would never end. A terrified government worker who frequently receives threatening mail with strange powder in it presents with a rash accompanied by fever. The…
01/13/15: Bored review. Fire!! Fire!!!
Spoiler alert! EM-CCM next week will continue on this very seasonal topic. A fire breaks out in a fictional borough in a fictional metropolis. A family of 4 is brought from a fire in a townhouse.The three children disappear into…
A Thrilling Bored Review
Jonny Utah () presents to your ED clutching his knee, grimacing, and firing his weapon unnecessarily into the ceiling. After he puts his weapon down, you assess the leg. He has a deformity to the knee, cannot bear weight, and…
12/30/14:Happy New Year from Bored Review!
A 27-year-old female is brought to the emergency department in the wee hours of January 1st 2015. She was found by a bystander in her skimpy New Years dress confused, laying on the lawn of a stranger’s home. She is…
Too Stimulating to be Bored Review
A 14 year old named Fred Weasely presents to your ER complaining of finger pain while playing some game called “Quidditch”. He reports he grabbed an opposing players cape as they were “flying…er…running” away. Since, he has had trouble making a…