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Clinical , Trauma

Does TXA MATTER When Your Patients CRASH?

8/5/2015 Michael Spigner, MD, EMT-CC

Does TXA MATTER When Your Patients CRASH? A Summary of 2 Seminal Studies of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma The past decade has ushered in significant advances in the care of patients with traumatic injuri

Risk Management Pitfalls , Pain Management , Clinical , Medico Legal

Pain Management in the Emergency Department

8/5/2015 EM Resident

Pain Management in the Emergency Department From the August 2012 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “An Evidence-Based Approach to Traumatic Pain Management in the Emergency Department.” Reprinte

Clinical , Visual Diagnosis , Pediatric EM

Rash and Fever

8/5/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD

Rash and Fever The Patient A 12-day-old healthy male is brought to the emergency department by his parents because of a blistering groin rash and fever that started 24 hours ago. His Tmax over that t

Clinical , Trauma , Penetrating , Critical Care

Bullet Points: Penetrating Neck Trauma

8/5/2015 Abdullah Bakhsh, MD, MBBS

Bullet Points: Penetrating Neck Trauma A 57-year-old female is brought in to the emergency department after sustaining a gunshot wound to the right face. Initial assessment reveals facial swelling an

Clinical , Pediatric EM , OB/GYN , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Pediatric Ovarian Torsion

8/5/2015 EM Resident

Pediatric Ovarian Torsion From the July 2012 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosing and Managing Ovarian and Adnexal Torsion in Children.” Reprinted with permission. To access y

Clinical , OB/GYN , Pediatric EM

Ovarian Torsion in the Pediatric Population

8/4/2015 Lemi Luu, MD, FACEP , Cristiana Baloescu, MD

Ovarian Torsion in the Pediatric Population It's the start of your afternoon community pediatrics shift and you are seeing a 7-year-old girl who started having acute RLQ pain followed by vomiting. Sh

Cardiology , Pain Management , Medico Legal

Chest Pain and Answers

8/4/2015 Farzon Nahvi, MD

Chest Pain and Answers It started about an hour ago,” he stammered. Sweating profusely and taking deep, splinted breaths between sentences, he described a great chest pain story. “Yeah, I'd say it's

Clinical , Ultrasound , Cardiology

Ultrasound-Based Risk Stratification of Patients with Acute PE

8/4/2015 Sharmin Kalam, MD , Mark Favot, MD

Ultrasound-Based Risk Stratification of Patients with Acute PE An 85-year-old female with a history of hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presents with sudden onset of dys

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

Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal , Clinical , Critical Care , Shock

Diagnosing and Managing Shock

6/15/2015 EM Resident

Diagnosing and Managing Shock From the March 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Diagnosis and Management of Shock in the Emergency Department.” Reprinted with permission. To access your EMRA