Browsing: Gastroenterology

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Toxicology , Pediatric EM , Gastroenterology

Gastric Perforation after Liquid Nitrogen Ingestion: A Scream after Ice Cream

2/11/2020 Natasha Brown, MD , Carlos Dos Santos , Fiona Azbuike, MD
Sweet! Cool! Oh ... The popular food or drink enhancement tactic of adding liquid nitrogen can have alarming effects - possibly fatal.
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Gastroenterology , Urology

Case Report: Synchronous Obstructive Ureterolithiasis and Acute Diverticulitis

8/19/2018 Brunilda Prifti, MD , Chadd E Nesbit, MD, PhD
Abdominal pain is not an uncommon presentation - but in this case it revealed an unusual diagnosis.
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Geriatrics , Gastroenterology

Approach to Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient

2/2/2017 Katren Tyler, MD , Justine M. Nagurney, MD , Christopher Carpenter, MD, MSc
Approach to Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient You are working in the emergency department on a pleasant Sunday afternoon when the paramedics wheel in an 85-year-old gentleman who has been havin
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Clinical , Gastroenterology

Helicobacter pylori: Underappreciated and Underdiagnosed

8/3/2015 W. Tyler Winders, MD
Helicobacter pylori: Underappreciated and Underdiagnosed In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall, an Australian physician, ingested a petri dish known to contain Helicobacter pylori in an attempt to help prove h
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Clinical , Infectious Disease , Gastroenterology

Shaking Down Shigella

10/15/2014 EM Resident
Shaking Down Shigella Brian C. Phillips, MD, Resident Physician, Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN As few as 10-200 organisms may be sufficient to develop an infecti

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Bowel Perforation and Bowel Volvulus

EM Clerkship 06/30/2019

Bowel Ischemia and Bowel Obstruction

EM Clerkship 06/23/2019

Nausea and Vomiting

EM Clerkship 03/04/2018

Patients with Cirrhosis

EM Clerkship 02/25/2018
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