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Clinical , Visual Diagnosis

Photophobia

10/8/2015 R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM , Lawrence Stack, MD , Brittany White, MD
Photophobia The Patient A 31-year-old female presents to the emergency department with 1 week of right eye pain, redness, excessive tearing, and photophobia. She denies any trauma, chemical exposures
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EMPower

Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP Rich Levitan, MD, FACEP How many frequent flier miles have you racked up this year? It's a safe bet Rich Levitan has at least doubled you. Between clinical shifts in Colorado,
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Neurology

Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage

10/8/2015 Terrance McGovern, DO, MPH , Joseph Bove, DO
Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage On your next shift, you find yourself evaluating a 58-year-old-male with acute onset of left upper and lower extremity weakness and a facial droop that
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Editorial

Social Emergency Medicine: It's What We Do

10/8/2015 Charles Justin Hall, DO
Social Emergency Medicine: It's What We Do “One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” — Albert Schweitzer The role of
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Clinical , Infectious Disease

Foreign Travelers: Cutaneous Parasitic Infections from Abroad

10/8/2015 Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM , Anne Katz, MD
Foreign Travelers: Cutaneous Parasitic Infections from Abroad Case Presentation You step into the room of a 22-year-old female sent from her primary care physician for incision and drainage of two fa
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Financial , Personal , Career Planning , Resident

EMRA Resident Forum and ACEP15: Make the Most of It!

10/8/2015 M. Shayne Ruffing, CLU, ChFC, AEP
EMRA Resident Forum and ACEP15: Make the Most of It! It happens in late fall and accelerates into spring: Graduating residents start to stress about the move into practice. Not the medical or profess
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Clinical , Ultrasound

A Literature Review and Discussion: Sheath & Sound

10/8/2015 Michael Schick, DO, MA , Jay Taylor Williams, MD
A Literature Review and Discussion: Sheath & Sound Case You are working in Central America doing emergency development work, when a 7-year-old girl presents in status epilepticus. She has no seizure
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Clinical , Pediatric EM , Pain Management

Nitrous Oxide for Pediatric Sedation

10/8/2015 Lisa Greenfield, MD
Nitrous Oxide for Pediatric Sedation In the emergency department, we perform minor surgical procedures and invasive tests on children every day. Intravenous procedural sedation is often used to facil
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Clinical , Pediatric EM , Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal

Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Children From the April 2014 issue of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, “Apparent Life-Threatening Events In Children: Practical Evaluation And Management.”
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Clinical , Infectious Disease , Medico Legal , Risk Management Pitfalls

Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus

10/8/2015 EM Resident
Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Malaria, Dengue, and West Nile Virus From the May 2014 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice, “Emergency Department Management of Mosquito-Borne Illness: Malaria, Dengue, and