Hello again fellow Bloggers! Time for the monthly blogpost you have been waiting for, Rhythm Nation. Enjoy! 90 yo F w/ h/o HTN, HLD, DM, asthma, presenting with 3 hours of acute SOB and mid-sternal, non-radiating chest pain. Read more…
Presented by: Dr. Cassie Thomassin Summarized by: Dr. Yonatan Yohannes Reviewed by: Dr. Ian deSouza, Dr. Wendy Chan The Fictitious Case A 22 y/o F with PMH insulin-dependent DM and hypothyroidism is brought in by EMS for altered mental Read more…
Let’s talk about the patient with HIV, who maybe presents with a fever, and says he doesn’t know his last CD4 count but thinks it’s ‘not good.’ Reach back into that fund of knowledge you’ve perhaps suppressed from your crazy, Read more…
Let’s go and see your next patient in the pediatric ER: a 4 month baby with a chief complaint of “head injury”. Mom says that she was playing with the baby yesterday. While playing, the baby kicked and then hit Read more…
Dr. Kim cast his lot with an excellent expanded differential diagnosis list that reviewed a few of the other things we should look out for, but Dr. Balakrishnan took an early pure shot and hit this diagnosis largely square on. To review the Read more…
Chapter 1 You greet EMS at the door. They are bringing in a man who eerily reminds you of your drunken choreography at your own wedding. You ask some questions and appreciate a fully responsive man with violent, uncontrollable muscle Read more…
12 year old female with a history of Heterotaxy Syndrome and cardiac surgery presents to your ED with sudden onset of right arm and leg weakness. She has a history of being on Warfarin for a “clot” in her heart Read more…
Autumn is here and hot off of CPC, COtM surges forward. Get ready to crunch those brains and be a diagnostic hero. A 34 y/o M presents to the ED with 3 days of watery diarrhea with small amount Read more…
A 33 year old woman presents to your ED complaining of 4 days of “stomach pain.” She says it started after a weekend of mandatory celebratory drinking for closing a deal at her fancy finance job, and that she had Read more…
If you guessed Type 1 Brugada syndrome, then you are correct! Pathophysiology Brugada syndrome is a disease resulting from a mutation in the SCN5A gene, which encodes a myocardial voltage-gated sodium channel. It is inherited via an autosomal dominant pattern Read more…