Browsing: Clinical

Cardiology

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes

4/28/2017 Ryan Joseph, DO, DTM&H , Lee Wood, DO

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes The heart is an incredible organ. The average American's heart will beat nearly 2.5 billion times over the course of a lifetime.1 But eventual

Clinical , Cardiology , ECG Challenge

ECG Challenge - April 2017

4/12/2017

ECG Challenge - April 2017 Case. A middle-aged male with unknown medical history is brought to the emergency department after being found outside on the streets of New York City in February smelling

Pain Management , Critical Care

Pain Management in Vaso-occlusive Sickle Cell Crisis

4/11/2017 Amani Mahdi, MD, MBBS

Pain Management in Vaso-occlusive Sickle Cell Crisis Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common genetic blood disorder in the United States, affecting an estimated 100,000 persons.1 Vaso-occlusive

Orthopedics , Sports Medicine

Boxer's Break: Metacarpal Fractures

4/11/2017 R. Ian Ross, MD , Ibbad Yousuf , Albert Leung, MD

Boxer's Break: Metacarpal Fractures A 21-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with pain and swelling in his left hand several hours after an injury that occurred while playing foot

Consults , Neurology , Consult Corner

Consult Corner Neurosurgery

4/2/2017 Colin Przybylowski, MD

Consult Corner Neurosurgery When you have a patient with a neurosurgical emergency, time is precious. Colin Przybylowski, MD, of the Barrow Neurological Institute offers insight on how to present an

Neurology

When The Room Is Spinning: Can't-Miss Diagnoses in the Dizzy Patient

4/2/2017 Jeremy Branzetti, MD , David Murphy, MD

When The Room Is Spinning: Can't-Miss Diagnoses in the Dizzy Patient A 34-year-old previously healthy female presents with abrupt onset right-sided headache, vertigo, and vomiting associated with di

Cardiology

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly

4/2/2017 Noah White, MD, FACEP , Gregory Wu, MD , Christopher Hanowitz, MD

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly A 63-year-old male is brought in by EMS after having a witnessed cardiac arrest while at work. Bystander CPR was started immediatel

Orthopedics

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain

4/2/2017 Danya Khoujah, MD , Ahmed Al Hazmi, MD, MBBS

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain Low back pain (LBP) is one of the top 5 chief complaints among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED), making it an imp

Cardiology , Critical Care

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure

4/2/2017 Mark Andreae, MD , Chad Meyers, MD

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure A 50-year-old woman with a history of primary pulmonary hypertension with right ventricular dysfunction presents with one week of worsening abdominal pain. Sh

Informatics , Security

Hospitals and Hackers: Keeping Patients Safe From Cyber Attacks

4/1/2017 Christian Dameff, MD, MS

Hospitals and Hackers: Keeping Patients Safe From Cyber Attacks An 83-year-old female with a history of sick sinus syndrome status post pacemaker implantation presents to the emergency department (ED

Browsing: Clinical

High Performance CPR: Leading the Way to Better Outcomes

ECG Challenge - April 2017

Pain Management in Vaso-occlusive Sickle Cell Crisis

Boxer's Break: Metacarpal Fractures

Consult Corner Neurosurgery

When The Room Is Spinning: Can't-Miss Diagnoses in the Dizzy Patient

Left Circumflex Artery Occlusions: (Electrically) Silent but Deadly

Straight to the Source: Local Treatment Options for Low Back Pain

Managing Acute Right Ventricular Failure

Hospitals and Hackers: Keeping Patients Safe From Cyber Attacks

#FOAMed and External Sources

Code-switching

Deliberate Self-Harm

Secondary Surveys in paediatric trauma patients

5 top tips to gain confidence in ultrasound-guided peripheral IVs

ALL ARTICLES

CATEGORIES