Our winner is the illustrious ablumenberg! For the initial presentation, see here. In brief, we have a gorilla of an acid-base question with pertinent history including a history of diabetes and alcohol abuse. This one’s a little long, so put on…
Welcome to our weekly Wednesday Wrap Up from conference today. Dr. Rebecca Carter Acute monoarthritis is septic until proven otherwise The most common pathogen is? Imaging and labs aren’t very helpful in diagnosing septic arthritis, but are good for excluding…
Limping is one of the most common complaints in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Most children will have a limp at some point or another in their lives. Limping poses a challenge in the pediatric population, as it is difficult to…
Dear ED, On November 12, Eli Brown will be giving Journal Club on this paper: Failed Validation of the Quebec shoulder dislocation rule for young adult patients in an Australian emergency department. Ong et al., CJEM 2011; 13(3): 150-154. The…
It’s an eerily quiet morning in the ED when in comes a vomiting patient… The (Made-Up) Case 48 year old M, pmhx DM, chronic/heavy drinker, presents with 4 days of NBNB vomiting. He hasn’t taken his diabetes medication during this…
That anterior epistaxis had to be packed and you did what you were told and gave the Abx. Did you help or harm that patient by giving the meds? Let us see what the data in the big world says….