Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis
At a rural acute stroke-ready hospital in the year 2030, you are using a tele-stroke tablet to evaluate a 62-year-old male en route by mobile computed tomog
A Personal Story of Burnout
Up until this past week, I thought I had a good handle on burnout. I thought I had figured it out. At some point during the past year, during a string of overnight shifts
The Danger of Weight Loss Supplements
A 54-year-old male presents with a chief complaint of heat exhaustion. He is a truck driver who has been traveling across the country without air conditioning. P
Perils and Pitfalls of Adopting Bleeding-Edge Technology in the ED
“Wearable technology” has become a part of daily life for millions of individuals. Who can remember the last time they navigated a
STEMI or no STEMI? A Challenging Diagnosis
A 26-year-old anxious, diaphoretic male presents with crushing mid-sternal chest pain that awakened him from sleep. Past medical history is unremarkable asi
ECG Challenge
Case. A 59-year-old male smoker with a history of hypertension, familial hyperlipidemia and insulin dependent diabetes presents with 2 hours of substernal chest pressure radiating to hi