Browsing: October 2015

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Clinical , Pediatric EM , Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal

Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children From the April 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Apparent Life-Threatening Events In Children: Practical Evaluation And Management.”
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Clinical , Infectious Disease , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus From the May 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Emergency Department Management of Mosquito-Borne Illness: Malaria, Dengue, and
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Awards , Advancement of EM , Research

Be the Change Project Addresses ICU Boarders

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Be the Change Project Addresses ICU Boarders Editor's Note: In 2014, a team from Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois, was awarded the EMRA Be the Change Grant for their “ICU Boarders
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Clinical , Ultrasound

Finding the Invisible: Using Ultrasound to Combat Fournier's

10/8/2015 Marsia Vermeulen, DO, FACEP , Di Coneybeare, MD
Finding the Invisible: Using Ultrasound to Combat Fournier's Case A 77-year-old male with coronary artery disease, diabetes, and a recent left femoral neck fracture is sent to the ED for non-resolvin
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Neurology

Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage

10/8/2015 Terrance McGovern, DO, MPH , Joseph Bove, DO
Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage On your next shift, you find yourself evaluating a 58-year-old-male with acute onset of left upper and lower extremity weakness and a facial droop that
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Clinical , Infectious Disease

Foreign Travelers: Cutaneous Parasitic Infections from Abroad

10/8/2015 Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM , Anne Katz, MD
Foreign Travelers: Cutaneous Parasitic Infections from Abroad Case Presentation You step into the room of a 22-year-old female sent from her primary care physician for incision and drainage of two fa
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Treating the Convicted

10/8/2015 Timothy E. Snow, MD
Treating the Convicted Residents in the receiving hospital for one of the world's largest correctional facilities see a wide variety of incarcerated patients with an array of chief complaints. The CD
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Clinical , Critical Care , Pediatric EM , Airway

The Pediatric Airway

10/8/2015 Kyle Yoder, MD
The Pediatric Airway Clinical Scenario You are working an overnight shift at a single-coverage emergency department, when EMS calls ahead with a pediatric medical alert. They are three minutes out wi
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Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Photophobia

10/8/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD , Brittany White, MD
Photophobia The Patient A 31-year-old female presents to the emergency department with 1 week of right eye pain, redness, excessive tearing, and photophobia. She denies any trauma, chemical exposures
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EMPower

Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP How many frequent flier miles have you racked up this year? It's a safe bet Rich Levitan has at least doubled you. Between clinical shifts in Colorado,