Cutting edge teaching on ultrasound in Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with POCUS Atlas, as well as articles on radiology in EM
Written by Adam Blumenberg MD Special Thanks to Mark Silverberg MD A 54 year-old woman with a history of cigarette smoking and uncontrolled hypertension presents to the ED disoriented and mumbling incomprehensible words. Her family members say she began acting strangely about 20 minutes after complaining of severe headache. Her Read more…
Clinical CT for August 2016 by Adam Blumenberg MD A 75 year-old woman with a history of left femur ORIF and hypertension was “clipped” on the left knee by a turning car as she was crossing the street. She is dressed in religious garb with a head scarf and long Read more…
A 54 year-old male smoker is brought in by EMS with acute-onset, substernal chest pain. Vitals: BP 110/88, HR: 90. He is diaphoretic. The rest of his physical exam is unremarkable. A stat ECG reveals the following: The patient is taken straight to the cardiac cath lab. Coronary angiography before and Read more…
Clinical CT for June 2016 by Adam Blumenberg MD Special thanks to Mark Silverberg MD A 12 year-old boy presents to the emergency department at 7:00AM Sunday morning with 2 hours of left sided abdominal pain, waxing & waning nausea and vomiting. Vital signs are within the normal range and abdomen Read more…
A 67 year-old male with history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II, dyslipidemia presents to the emergency department with 1 hour of severe chest discomfort that started while he was watching the evening news at home. The chest discomfort is substernal and radiates to his left shoulder and back. Review Read more…
A 12 year-old female with no PMHx presents to the pediatric ED with acute-onset crampy and sharp left-sided pelvic pain. The pain started 3-4 hours earlier, associated with nausea but no vomiting or diarrhea. VS: HR 102, BP 110/86, T: 99.4 You note a non-toxic appearing girl in moderate distress due to Read more…
A 65 year-old male presents with a worsening productive cough, shortness of breath, general malaise, and subjective fevers and chills for the past week. His PMHx includes HTN, CAD, and DM. He has a 30 pack-year smoking history. He has never been incarcerated, denies recent travel, has no known TB Read more…
Written by: Dr. Randi Ozaki Team Sono recently had its first meeting, and it was a resounding success! We met up at Black Forrest Brooklyn for some beer, bratz and pretzels and discussed two papers about sonographic findings in ectopic pregnancy. Here is a brief summary of the two papers Read more…
SAVE OF THE MONTH – Thank you Dr. Amy Sanghvi for an unbelievable save of a mother with…. drumroll….. a heterotopic pregnancy!!! Thanks to Dr. Wendy Chan for the nomination. Here’s the scene: A 30 year-old woman G2P1 presented at 8 weeks EGA with worsening abdominal cramps on the right Read more…
58 year-old man presents with chest pain: 1) What is the diagnosis and management? 2) What is the patient’s prognosis?