Blunt chest injury can rarely result in a direct contusion to the myocardium. This "bruise of the heart" can precipiate lethal cardiac arrhythmia, often in a delayed fashion. As you evaluate a trauma patient with complaints of chest pain after blunt injury, yo you wonder what the correct workup and management of this potentially fatal condition should consist of....
Read moreSubmitted by Aimee Parks, MD
Blunt chest injury can rarely result in a direct contusion to the myocardium. This "bruise of the heart" can precipiate lethal cardiac arrhythmia, often in a delayed fashion. As you evaluate a trauma patient with complaints of chest pain after blunt injury, yo you wonder what the correct workup and management of this potentially fatal condition should consist of....
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60-year-old female presents to the emergency department with fevers, chills, and decreased appetite. Patient also complaining of L leg pain that she noted 1-day prior.
Read moreYou are working in a busy ED when a patient who is 54 arrives with an acute onset headache associated with syncope but no focal neurologic deficits. His physical exam is unremarkable but his BP is mildly elevated at 175/80. The patient’s head CT is consistent with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. You begin anti-hypertensive treatment, but wonder how reliable non-invasive blood pressure measurement is in this patient.
Read moreSubmitted by Lars-Kristofer Peterson, MD
Tox in the News lecture with Matt Salzman, MD
New reports of ingestion of chloroquine for prophylaxis of COVID-19, chloroquine which was meant to clean fish tanks, resulting in critical illness and death … do not do this ...
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Submitted by Loran Hatch, DO
A 26 yo male complains of left leg pain
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16 y/o female p/w L sided facial droop and L eyelid weakness
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Submitted by Eric Hasbun, MD
High yield review of ischemic colitis, courtesy of Dr. Lynn Manganiello.
Read moreSubmitted by Lynn Manganiello, DO
Everyone knows more about COVID-19 than me! Where do I find the highest yield, evidence-based information about the coronavirus disease 2019?
Read moreSubmitted by Emily Damuth, MD
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Thoracic Society released new community acquired pneumonia guidelines in Oct 2019.
This is a review of antibiotic management.
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Submitted by Loran Hatch, DO