Cardiogenic shock is a state of end-organ hypoperfusion due to cardiac failure. It is a type of circulatory…
The Problem A cervical artery dissection (CAD) occurs when a tear in the intima of a carotid…
Last month we debunked five myths about trauma and triage in older patients—the fastest growing population in…
The oldest Americans are the fastest-growing population in the United States.1 Older persons are more likely to…
Physicians increasingly depend on laboratory tests and imaging, sometimes at the expense of a careful history and…
Outcomes in polytrauma depend not only on prompt recognition of occult shock and early source control of…
A known complication of cirrhosis of the liver is newly altered level of awareness (LOA). Although several entities…
A 20-year-old healthy man arrives at the emergency department at 4 a.m. complaining of one hour of…
Although most seizures resolve spontaneously in one to three minutes, the seizures we typically face in the…
My friend, emergency medicine colleague and educator Barbara Tatham, MD, died of metastatic sarcoma at the age…