by Samara Adler | Mar 20, 2025 | emergency, Featured, Full Article, Grand Round Summaries, Thrombosis
You are working in the low acuity zone of the ED when you encounter your first patient. She’s a 75-year-old female with a history of hypertension, diabetes and total right hip replacement 1.5 months ago presenting with left leg swelling and pain. You see the patient...
by Kaitlin Endres, Mathieu McKinnon | Jan 18, 2024 | Critical Care, emergency, Featured, Gastroenterology, Grand Round Summaries, Surgery, Thrombosis
When working up your patient, how often do you think of problems related to the hepatic venous system? Have you suppressed those memories of time spent over your cadaver in medical school learning the anatomy? By the end of this, you will all be newly discovered...
by Hans Rosenberg | Jul 8, 2021 | Journal Club, Thrombosis
Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Xu K, et al. J Thromb Haemost. 2021 Apr 8. doi: 10.1111/jth.15337. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33834620. Question and methods: The authors sought to develop a new, simplified clinical decision rule to exclude DVT using individual...
by Evelyn Tran, Alie Wudwud | Feb 18, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Radiology
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a thrombotic disease of the cerebral veins and major dural sinuses. It is a rare kind of venous thromboembolism and can also be thought of as a type of stroke. CVT accounts for 0.5-1% of stroke cases. The annual incidence is 0.2 –...
by Talal Alkhaldi | Jul 3, 2025 | ENT, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurology, Ophthalmology
Imagine waking up one day, and the world around you is no longer as you’ve always seen it. The numbers on your alarm clock blur into nothingness, or half of your vision seems to have vanished altogether. Panic sets in as you make your way to the emergency department....
