It’s Friday night, and you get a second in between patients. You are dreaming of sipping a Mai Tai by the beach, when your dream is quickly brought to an end. A 35-year-old young man walks into the ED, complaining Read more…
A fit, young female dressed in cycling gear presents to your emergency department with a chief complaint of shoulder pain. Just prior to arrival, she was participating in a bike race in Prospect Park. As she was sprinting to the Read more…
Case: You are working a busy peds shift and are nearing the end of your shift when EMS brings in this adorable 12-month-old girl with her mother. Mom says her child’s only medical history is eczema, and an hour prior Read more…
Faithful Bloggers! Rhythm Nation is back from its brief hiatus for another installment of critical analysis of the ECGs seen at King’s County. 76M, past history of HTN, dyslipidemia, Stage III CKD, presents with headache and AMS. Concerned family members Read more…
You decide to spend your elective month in Bora Bora hoping you’ll pick up a clinical pearl or two on trauma and envenomation from marine fauna. One morning on your day off from the hospital, you decide to get up Read more…
It’s a quiet night in the critical care area of the ED, and you are engaging in stimulating and academic discussion with your attending and junior resident about the merits of cinema in the 1980s. Just as you broach the Read more…
I’d like to thank our 4th year resident, Dr. Michael Griesinger, for essentially giving me this entire lecture in real time as he diagnosed and treated an inferior STEMI with right ventricular (RV) infarction yesterday. He nailed every aspect of it. Everything I researched today was just confirmation. Read more…
After a two-month hiatus, Case of the Month returns! Get your thinking caps on for July’s Edition… The patient is a 50-year-old woman with a previous history of type II diabetes, and recently completed a 6-month course of Read more…
This month’s excellent save goes to… Dr. Steven Greenstein! Dr. Greenstein was working during a particularly busy shift in the Critical Care / Trauma area when EMS brought in a patient with a history of prostate cancer and a chief Read more…
It’s about 12am on a Tuesday, and you’re almost done cleaning up that post-dinner rush in the pediatric ED. You scuttle that last fever with a rash out the door, stickers in hand, when another one pops up on your Read more…
