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…
Written by: Dr. Jay Pandya, Dr. Emily Chien, and Dr. Nidhi Kadakia Edited by: Dr. Wesley Chan On Monday 12/14/20, the International Emergency Medicine Mini-Fellowship gathered to discuss triage systems in resource-limited settings, namely two triage scores, the Cape Read more…
Written by Tareq Azad, MD Editors: Smruti Desai, DO and Noah Berland, MD Faculty Reviewer: Eden Kim, DO As emergency physicians, we not only consider likely diagnoses, but also create contingency plans for catastrophic “cannot miss” pathologies. In a Read more…
Author: Jonathan McMahon, DO, MA Edited by: Robert Allen, MD; Noah Berland, MD Tranexamic Acid (TXA) has been in the literature a lot recently. Between the HALT-IT trial for its use in GI bleed, CRASH-2 and MATTERs for its use Read more…
A woman in her 40s with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with one hour of sudden-onset, left-sided abdominal pain. The pain was described as severe, constant, and radiated to the epigastric area. There was Read more…
Author: Shane Solger, MD Edited by: Andrea Greene, MD, MPH Just Another Minor Head Trauma? When a healthy, middle-aged Joe with minor head trauma buys himself a CT scan in the ED, he can often be discharged from the ED Read more…
Remember where we left off: you just spoke to a fifty-year-old woman describing severe, intermittent chest pain radiating to the back and left arm. You order aspirin and nitroglycerin, along with a troponin and you are now looking at her Read more…
Author: Robby Allen Edited by: Taylor Douglas and Eden Kim Case A 56-year-old male with PMH of hypertension, CHF, HIV, and obesity presents to the ED with a chief complaint of chest pain. He states the chest pain awoke him Read more…
Author: Alec Feuerbach MD Edited by Robby Allen MD (Thanks to Dr. Robby Allen for contributing this ECG) The Case: A 50-year-old woman with no history of cardiac disease presents with severe, intermittent chest pain radiating to the back Read more…