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Critical Care

The Crashing Patient with Critical Aortic Stenosis

10/3/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Mark Andreae, MD

The Crashing Patient with Critical Aortic Stenosis A 90-year-old male with a past medical history of severe aortic stenosis, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and chronic kidney disease p

Prehospital Care

Tornado Touchdown: Mississippi Medical Students Overcome Disaster

8/29/2017 Olivia Kennedy, MS-II

Tornado Touchdown: Mississippi Medical Students Overcome Disaster In the early morning hours of Jan. 21, 2017, medical students in Mississippi were”¦ studying. Like every other first-year student, I

Practice Environments , International EM

Central Line Training in a Resource-Limited Environment

8/14/2017 Torben K. Becker, MD, PhD , Moneer Abdo, MD

Central Line Training in a Resource-Limited Environment Medical residents in the United States have the opportunity to learn and practice procedures on simulators before ever attempting them on a rea

Clinical , Palliative Care

Sides of the Same Coin: Dispelling Myths About Palliative Care in the ED

8/14/2017 Allison Chan, DO

Sides of the Same Coin: Dispelling Myths About Palliative Care in the ED Emergency Medicine (EM) and Hospice/Palliative Medicine (HPM) are often viewed as two medical specialties on opposite sides of

Recreational Drugs , Toxicology

Tripping off Trumpets: Diagnosis and Management of Jimson Weed Toxicity

8/14/2017 Henrik Galust, MD

Tripping off Trumpets: Diagnosis and Management of Jimson Weed Toxicity A 16-year-old male is brought to the emergency department for confusion and hallucinations for the past hour. Two hours prior t

Wilderness Medicine

Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED

8/9/2017 Kayvon Izadpanah, MD , Amita Sudhir, MD

Angling for Success: Techniques for Fishhook Removal in the ED An 11-year-old boy presents to the emergency department. While fishing, he was startled by a dog. He began to run away but tripped, land

Pediatric EM

Pediatric Drowning: In Over Your Head

8/9/2017 Nancy Nguyen, DO , Lyncean Ung, DO , Jijoe Joseph, DO, MBA , Dean Olsen, DO

Pediatric Drowning: In Over Your Head The sudden and unexpected death of a child is especially tragic when it is preventable, which is oftentimes the case with drowning. There have been multiple term

Wilderness Medicine

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness

8/9/2017 Geoff Comp, DO, FAWM , Charles Duke, MD, PhD

Improvised Medicine: Lessons from the Wilderness Improvised medicine might be viewed as a skill reserved for the wilderness — for the people who can whittle an entire trauma bay out of a few sticks.

Telemedicine , Informatics , Editorial

Telemedicine

8/9/2017 Chichen Qiu, MD , Aditi Joshi, MD, FACEP

Telemedicine A 34-year-old female woke up today with a sore throat. She hoped she would improve as the day went on, but the pain persisted despite over-the-counter medications. She tried calling her

Event Medicine

On Doctoring at the Olympics

8/9/2017 Justin D. Burkholder, DO , Brian M. Scheele, DO, MS

On Doctoring at the Olympics An Insider's View of Event Medicine Editor's note: During the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two adventurous emergency medicine residents served as