You’re busy at work in the ED of Seattle Grace Hospital when the infamous Dr. Christina Yang (one of the premier cardiothoracic surgeons in your prestigious fictional hospital) makes her way down to the ER after finishing a case in Read more…
You are working in the critical care area and need to log a trauma resuscitation since this is your last chance to get certified! A 65 year old male is brought by EMS for shortness of breath. He is tachypneic Read more…
This month Monalisa talked about 2 great articles on snow blindness. Both of those articles can be downloaded here: Snowblindness in Antartica Snowblindness She did a great job going through them and also provided a nice short summary if your Read more…
Before you all start to get your holiday groove on, crunch some brain cells and take a swing at the halfway point for this year’s COtM series. A 34 y/o F with PMH sickle cell disease is BIBEMS to Read more…
Congratulations to ablumenberg! While your answer wasn’t complete, you were the only one to submit an answer, so, you win money (or a gift card)! To recap: An 88 yo M on aspirin and PLAVIX is BIBEMS for headache and vomiting the Read more…
A 70 y/o woman with CHF, irregular heart beat and DM presents with malaise, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea x 1 week. On exam, she appears weak and confused. Vitals are normal except mild bradycardia. FS is 100. EKG is shown. Read more…
A 29-year-old male comes to your ED complaining of pressure-like left sided chest pain that started an hour after he smoked marijuana. He has never felt anything like this before. He has no medical problems, surgeries, medications, allergies, and has Read more…
SEDATE BEFORE YOU INTUBATE THAT NEONATE!!!!!! By: Virteeka Sinha Energy and restlessness are the two faces of pediatric emergency medicine that we are all aware of. I am not talking about the extensively keen physicians with loads of energy Read more…
It’s a dreary day in Brooklyn–cold and rainy with a cesspool of germs in the air–and Pod A sounds like a sweet symphony of hacking, moaning, and coughing. You pick up a patient with a chief complaint of ‘coughing up blood,’ and before Read more…