Browsing: June 2015

Health Policy , Advocacy , Affordable Care Act

Supreme Court Upholds ACA

6/26/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA

Supreme Court Upholds ACA The Supreme Court on June 25 ruled in the case of King v. Burwell, upholding a major provision of the Affordable Care Act. In a 6-3 decision, the court sided with Secretary

Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Blue Leg

6/15/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD

Blue Leg The Patient A 46-year-old male presents to the emergency department complaining of excruciating right leg pain. The pain began with a mild aching the day prior to admission along with some d

Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal , Clinical , Critical Care , Shock

Diagnosing and Managing Shock

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Diagnosing and Managing Shock From the March 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosis and Management of Shock in the Emergency Department.” Reprinted with permission. To access your EMRA

Clinical , Toxicology , Recreational Drugs

X: The Toxidrome

6/15/2015 Erich A. Lidstone, MD, PhD , Danish Malik, MD

X: The Toxidrome Note: Incorrect author information appeared in the print edition and has been corrected here. We apologize for the error and confusion. A 24-year-old female is brought into your ED b

Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls , Clinical , Pediatric EM

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants From the March 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “A Systematic Approach to the Evaluation of Acute Unexplained Crying in Infants i

Events & Activities , CORD Academic Assembly

Resident Updates from #CORDAA15

6/14/2015 Zach Jarou, MD

Resident Updates from #CORDAA15 The Council of Emergency Medicine Program Directors (@CORD_EM) was formed in 1989 to promote “excellence in emergency medicine education through collaboration, innovat

Editorial

Larger Aspirations: Support for Organizational Resident Involvement

6/13/2015 Saadia Akhtar, MD

Larger Aspirations: Support for Organizational Resident Involvement When program directors review applications for potential candidates for the incoming intern class, one of the aspects assessed is t

Clinical , Airway , Critical Care

Opinions and History on Laryngoscopy

6/13/2015 W. Tyler Winders, MD , Mike Steuerwald, MD

Opinions and History on Laryngoscopy As Kleenex ® has evolved to relate to facial tissue, video laryngoscopy (VL) has become a descriptor for any use of a laryngoscope device with a video camera on i

Clinical , Critical Care

Solo Sodium: Emergent Management of Symptomatic Hyponatremia

6/13/2015 Ryan Cooper, MD , David Snow, MD, MSc

Solo Sodium: Emergent Management of Symptomatic Hyponatremia A 62-year-old Hispanic male is brought in by EMS for altered mental status and new onset seizure. On arrival to the emergency department

Clinical , Critical Care , Sepsis , Pediatric EM

In Shock: The Approach to Pediatric Sepsis

6/13/2015 Jessica Wall, MD

In Shock: The Approach to Pediatric Sepsis Introduction and Sepsis Review Whether in a pediatric or adult patient, the physiologic process of sepsis remains the same. Sepsis is a systemic inflammator