Shift from Metabolize-to-Freedom to Medication-Assisted Treatment
“Metabolize to freedom” or “MTF” as it is commonly known to emergency physicians is too frequently the…
Posts by Jed Henson
High Dose Nitroglycerin in Acute Heart Failure Goes Mainstream
The current acute management of patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in florid pulmonary edema barely…
Case Report: Upper Airway Obstruction in the Emergency Department
Case Report A 25-year-old female with history of shellfish allergy presented to the emergency department (ED) via…
Does This Patient Have Decisional Capacity?
Case A 21-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with bizarre behavior. He was found by…
Emergency Physician Restrictive Covenants Explained
Forty years after its founding as a single-site democratic group, the physician-owned practice group of which I…
Beware of Benzonatate (Tessalon) Misuse
Case Summary A 14-year-old female with a history of depression and prior overdose presented via EMS following…
Case Report: An Endocrine Enigma
A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) after a witnessed seizure. On examination, the patient…
The Reperfusion Guidelines Finally Catch Up
“Time is myocardium.” Emergency, prehospital, and regional systems have been built around this slogan and are designed…
Patients’ Best Friends: Therapy Dogs in the Emergency Department
Since time immemorial—or at least the 1956 publication of “Old Yeller”—stories about remarkable dogs who save humans…
Is Your Medical Chart Feeling Bloated?
That well-known but medically complex patient is back in your emergency department (ED). He was seen by…