Sifting through the hoards of mucous and foreign objects in the nostrils of your city’s youth, you are ready for your mid-shift feeding in the peds ED. However, before stepping away to your trough, an EMS notification comes in Read more…
It’s Saturday, the start of the weekend, and you go see your first patient, a 40 year-old woman whose chief complaint is “I can’t feel my face.” On further questioning, she tells you that the symptom started that morning when she Read more…
Chest pain: Cause for more than 8k…no, 80k…no, 8 MILLION visits!! What this is about? -Not the 60 year-old sweaty guy with crushing chest pain, ST-Elevations, and trop of 4000 (How many of those do you see?) -Not the 18 Read more…
I have some great news. You’ve been working your little booty off all year, and it’s finally time for your much-needed vacation. This year you’re doing it right with a getaway to the far reaches of Caribbean where you will Read more…
Presented by: Dr. Eris Cani / Summarized by: Dr. Sarah Jung / Reviewed by: Dr. Stanley Moy HAPPY 2016!!! Summary: Procalcitonin is a specific biomarker that can be useful for diagnosing bacterial infections Most evidence for PCT Read more…
Check out the first COtM of 2016 and get your brains kick-started in the new year: A 42 year-old man presents to the emergency department with persistent leg pain, vomiting, shortness of breath and tea-colored urine. One week prior to admission, he Read more…
Morning Report Written by: Jackie Shibata MD (Reviewed by deSouza) Here’s the scene… It’s Sunday and you get a transfer from an outside hospital for a young guy with constant abdominal pain and mild distention since falling off his bicycle Read more…
This week Dr. Bogoch discussed a nice review article that talked about how common illnesses can be exacerbated by going out into the wilderness. These diseases could by fueled by climbing up or diving down or just about any other Read more…
Its WrestlMania XIII 1997, and the Undertaker is soon to destroy Syncho Sid thanks to Bret Hart hitting Sid in the abdomen with a metal chair. You are sad for Sid and start wondering: Read more…
What is it? Grossly visible blood in the anterior chamber of the eye Microhyphema: dispersed red blood cells in the anterior chamber Why does it occur? Bleeding results from tears in the vessels of the ciliary body or iris Bleeding Read more…