Author: Molly Piccione, DO The Case: An older woman with PMH of ESRD is found unresponsive by her home health aide. On arrival to the Emergency Department (ED), the patient’s BP is 173/111 mm Hg, HR 109/min, RR 30/min, Read more…
Author: Matthew Turner, MD Reviewed by: Sage Wiener, MD Case A 19-year-old man with no past medical history goes hiking in the woods near his college campus in search of “magic mushrooms”. He finds a patch of little brown Read more…
Author: Marie Murphy, MD Editor: Nicole Anthony, MD “Stroke Code to the Stroke Assessment Area” A 60-year-old, left-handed man with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia is brought in by EMS for persistent sudden onset, Read more…
Author: Kenny Chao, MD Editor: Nicole Anthony, MD Ring ring. Notification: “Trach’d patient in respiratory distress.” Check your patient board: chief complaint of a small bleed from the tracheostomy tube that has since stopped. Pre-COVID, roughly 110,000 tracheostomies were performed Read more…
Written by: Taylor Douglas, M.D. You are the single provider in a rural Emergency Department, taking care of an unstable bradycardic patient. You are successfully pacing your patient transcutaneously, and now it’s time to get them a more definitive and Read more…
Transient Bundle Branch Blocks Written by: Alec Feuerbach, MD Edited by: Robby Allen, MD; Antonia Quinn, DO Remember our case: a woman 60 years of age presented with chest pain and an ECG with a left bundle branch block Read more…
Author: Dr. Julian Watson Editors: Dr. Smruti Desai, Dr. Robby Allen Why would we? Posing this question to an emergency physician is like asking a plumber why he would fix their friend’s sink. The answer too, is the same – Read more…
Written by: Alec Feuerbach, MD Edited by: Robby Allen, MD; Antonia Quinn, DO A 60(ish)-year-old woman presents to the ED describing an intermittent substernal chest pain that began the night before. She last experienced it again in the morning and Read more…
Written by Tareq Azad, MD Editors: Smruti Desai, DO, Noah Berland, MD, Robby Allen, MD Faculty Reviewer: Eden Kim, DO In my last post, we discussed what disability insurance is, why physicians need it, and why you should consider Read more…
Written by : Samantha Mazzeo, DO Edited by: Wesley Chan, MD Good news! It’s most likely the altitude. But why do we feel so winded at higher altitudes? What is different in the atmosphere? What does the human body do Read more…
