A review of bread and butter Emergency Medicine topics
An epic stuntman known as Evel Knievel presents to the ER with intense finger pain. He noticed the pain start yesterday, a day after he nicked his index finger doing a flying motorcycle stunt. Although he’s broken 433 bones in his lifetime (true story- he’s in the Guinness book of World Read more…
You assign yourself to a 55 year old female patient with a chief complaint of weakness. On your way to her room you follow the sounds of a woman who is seemingly speaking to Zoroaster, the ancient god of Persia, and loudly listening to Queen. You approach Read more…
For this week’s Bored Review we are taking a little trip to my arid hometown of Phoenix, Arizona! You are out on a desert hike with your little rascal 8 year old cousin, whose curiousity got the best of him. He was reaching under a rock and suddenly screams in Read more…
A 32 year old park ranger in a renowned Staten Island quagmire presents to your ED on a fine November eve complaining of pain, itching and swelling of her ears and hands. It’s been cold for a few weeks now, but it hasn’t gone below freezing. Your patient tells Read more…
It’s another bucolic day in NYC, and you’re stuck in the trenches of the ER with 10 deep to be seen. You pick your next patient, a 23 year-old guy, history of HIV, undomiciled, with a chief complaint of “mouth pain.” You go to the patient and ask what’s wrong, and Read more…
It’s 1:28am and the Red Phone in your critical care area rings. It’s the vice president who is notifying you personally that the HAZMAT team is enroute with Steven Seagal. Seagal, who single handedly stopped a terrorist with a nondescript accent from setting off a nuclear weapon in Read more…
Willy Wonka is a 78 year-old dude with a history of BPH, HTN, and mild dementia, brought in from the Chocolate Factory Assisted Living for the Sweet & Elderly, with a golden ticket from EMS saying he’s been acting even weirder than usual and stopped walking on his own. Vital Read more…
Its July 30th @6:09am and it is already ~100% humidity in your bucolic bike ride through the park. You know that you are going to smell like “armpit” all day, a fact that is accentuated by a whiff of fermenting garbage from the nearby garbage truck parking Read more…
Serena Williams strolls into your ED complaining of right eye pain for 2 days. She tells you that her right eye started hurting 2 day ago, after a tennis ball hit her face while practicing to dominate the US Open and win the 2015 Serena Slam. Since then she developed pain, photophobia, Read more…
A 29 year old female with a history of a congenital endocrinological deficiency (on chronic hormonal replacement therapy) is brought into your critical care area as a “sepsis code”. She tells you that for the past week she has had a productive cough and fever, but did not take the Read more…