About halfway through your shift in the critical care area of the ED, you are wrapping up a conversation with the medical ICU team about an elderly patient in septic shock when you hear a shout for help from the Read more…
A 34 year-old male with no medical problems presents to the emergency department with a bug bite. He states he was cleaning out his attic when he felt a pinch on his right arm. He saw a spider on his 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 Read more…
A young woman’s life was truly saved by the one and only… Dr. Molly Cutright! A 28 year-old woman with no past medical history was brought in by EMS for altered mental status. EMS reported that the patient had “belly Read more…
Leadership is an important concept for all of us as physicians. We are all leaders and will be for the entirety of our career, whether it be managing the clinical team caring for patients or holding a specific leadership Read more…
It’s still 1993. You are finishing up your rotation at the Bogota General Hospital in Colombia. It’s your last day. EMS rolls in a 40-year-old female who was found lying down on the floor of her apartment. The patient’s husband Read more…
Case A 35 year-old female with no PMH is brought in by her mother for acting strangely. Mother notes the patient has had two days of cough and cold-like symptoms with nausea today. She slept all day and upon waking, Read more…
Let us set the scene: You have a patient complaining of shortness of breath. The patient gives a poor history, but your spidey sense tells you this is obstructive pulmonary disease vs. new-onset heart failure. His corpulent body habitus Read more…
Review of the case: 54 year-old male with Granulomatosis with Polyangitis on prednisone, ESRD, and myelodysplastic syndrome present with fever, chills and one week of hemoptysis. Has had decreased exercise tolerance and recent hospital admission showing EF 50% and small Read more…
A young, tall, athletic man is brought to your emergency department by ambulance after he experiences sudden-onset shortness of breath. He’s tachypneic but not has otherwise normal vital signs upon examination. You’re not sure if you hear breath sounds on Read more…
