Browsing: Infectious Disease

COVID-19 , Heart of EM

CODE BLUE: An Intern's Reflections from Nights in the COVID-19 ICU

2/5/2021 Benjamen Schoenberg, MD

How could you truly know what it's like in the intensive care unit or emergency department during the peak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic without experiencing it yourself? As a new emergency medicine resi

Infectious Disease

An Unusual Case of Restless Legs

2/4/2021 Jordan Miller, DO , Savannah Chavez, MD , J'Chika Morah, MD

Spinal epidural abscesses are a rare condition affecting the spinal column, but if left untreated, they can rapidly become fatal.

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Pediatric EM , Infectious Disease

A Peculiar Case of Pediatric Subdural Empyema

2/4/2021 Sunny Bang, MD , Amy Le , Timothy Young, MD , Heather Kuntz, MD, FAAP, FACEP

Subdural empyemas are associated with significant morbidity and mortality if not recognized and treated promptly. The condition leads to purulent fluid collections between the dura and arachnoid mater

Pediatric EM , Infectious Disease , Wilderness Medicine

Tick Bites: An Often-Missed Cause of Pediatric Paralysis

2/4/2021 Megan Hoffer, DO , Anne Basil , Aaran Drake, MD, FACEP

The presentation of motor weakness in children is often alarming, difficult to characterize, and involves a large differential of uncommon pathologies. Tick paralysis is a rare but important cause of

Infectious Disease , Ultrasound

ICE Detention Center Patient with Omental Tuberculosis: POCUS Aids in the Diagnosis

2/4/2021 Sean Beckman, DO , Matthew A. Monson, DO , Amanda G. Toney, MD

A sick teen held in an ICE detention center was taken to the emergency department with non-specific findings of ascites and lymphadenopathy. Ultrasound helped differentiate omental tuberculosis from o

Infectious Disease

Coinfection of Trichomoniasis with Other Sexually Transmitted Infections

2/4/2021 Allen Le , MAJ John Kiel, DO, MPH, CAQ-SM

What is the prevalence of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomonas co-infection rates, and if rapid testing for trichomoniasis is unavailable in the emergency department, should the clinician empirically

Wilderness Medicine , COVID-19 , Wellness

Recreate Responsibly: Exploring the Wilderness in the Age of COVID

2/4/2021 Kathryn Kammert, DO , Capt. Yev Maksimenko, MD, MA, DiMM, FAWM, FP-C , Michelle Skuba-Gray , Elaine Yu, DO, MS, FAWM

How can you safely get outdoors? What do you need to plan to stay safe? How can you spend time in the wilderness responsibly? What impact can you have on the health of our planet and its future after

President's Message , Job Search , COVID-19

Defending COVID-19's Latest Victims

2/4/2021 RJ Sontag, MD

As the U.S. struggles to flatten the ever-rising curve of COVID-19, the virus has revealed a new weakness in the health care system. Despite putting their own health at risk to treat victims of the pa

Wellness , COVID-19

The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves: I Am Not Stressed

2/4/2021 Lauren Fisher, MD

Physician suicide was already double the national average pre-COVID. Before social isolation, before PPE fatigue, before our jobs became even harder. One of the biggest problems with stress is that we

Wellness , Workplace , COVID-19

Why Doctors Can't Get the Help They Need

2/4/2021 Evelyn Huang, MD

Imagine you have a patient who reports symptoms of depression. After ruling out other causes, you turn to treatment that addresses their mental health and any underlying psychiatric illness - but you