Identifying stroke mimics in the ED
In this post, we will aim to review the literature looking at identifying clinical and historical features that can help differentiate stroke mimics from strokes.... Read more.
Outpatient Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD
In this post, we review an approach to antibiotics, bronchodilators, and corticosteroids in the outpatient management for acute exacerbations of COPD. COPD –... Read more.
Polypharmacy, Prescribing, & Deprescribing in the ED
Care of the Elderly is an ever-growing, important, and prevalent part of an Emergency Physician’s repertoire of skills. With increasing numbers of elderly... Read more.
EMS Bootcamp – An introduction to pre-hospital medicine
As dedicated in-hospital emergency providers, few of us truly understand or get to experience the difficulties and unique challenges facing our pre-hospital colleagues.... Read more.
Health Journalism: Does it matter?
Why Should You Care About Health Journalism? Patients receive health information from many sources—and it’s often not from you, their doctor. The accuracy of... Read more.
Procedural Sedation in the ED: Agents
In this two part series, we are delving into a few of the many controversies regarding procedural sedation and explore how to reduce resource utilization and ED... Read more.
Fill ‘er up: Fluid Responsiveness in the ED
When we are caring for a septic patient in the ED, we know that aggressive care with early antibiotics and ensuring adequate preload saves lives. But... Read more.
Procedural Sedation in the ED – Part 1: Preprocedural Fasting
Procedural sedation is commonly performed in the Emergency Department. It is a critical tool that helps facilitate unpleasant but often necessary procedures that... Read more.
Caring for Patients with Functional Neurological Disorders in the ED: Updates, Pearls, and Pitfalls
Conversion Disorder Functional Neurological Disorder is not a diagnosis of exclusion. It is a diagnosis based on positive clinical features. Definitions: Medically... Read more.
Interstitial Lung Disease in the ED: “I think I’ve got the Black Lung Pop”
In this post, we cover the often seen, but poorly understood entity of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD). We will focus our discussion on the key features and approaches... Read more.