The SPEED Protocol: Using Ultrasound To Detect Acute Aortic Dissection
A 59-year-old man presents to your community emergency department (ED) with chest pain that is radiating to…
Skeptics’ Guide to EM
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The SPEED Protocol: Using Ultrasound To Detect Acute Aortic Dissection
A 59-year-old man presents to your community emergency department (ED) with chest pain that is radiating to... -
Revisiting Nitroglycerin in MI with Right-Side Ventricular Involvement
A 64-year-old male collapses after shovelling snow. Paramedics find a patient with eight out of 10 chest... -
Goal-Oriented, Bundled Care For Intracerebral Hemorrhage Improves Outcomes
A 76-year-old female presents to the emergency department obtunded with left hemiplegia. Symptoms began just prior to...
Revisiting Nitroglycerin in MI with Right-Side Ventricular Involvement
A 64-year-old male collapses after shovelling snow. Paramedics find a patient with eight out of 10 chest…
Goal-Oriented, Bundled Care For Intracerebral Hemorrhage Improves Outcomes
A 76-year-old female presents to the emergency department obtunded with left hemiplegia. Symptoms began just prior to…
Intranasal Fentanyl for Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Pain
Intranasal Fentanyl for Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Pain Case A 15-year-old female with sickle cell disease (SCD) presents…
Should You Etomidate Me?
Case A critically ill patient presents to the emergency department (ED) requiring an emergent, definitive airway. While…
Using Ultrasound to Make Surgical Decisions in Suspected Biliary Colic
Case A 50-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) complaining of epigastric pain and nausea for…
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients in the Emergency Department
Case You enter the room to see the next case and find two people. One is the…
Study Compares Standard, Vector Change and Double Sequential Defibrillation
Case A 64-year-old man has a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) while attending a hockey game. Bystander…
AF with RVR and HFrEF, CCB or BB?
Case: A 73-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) via EMS complaining of palpitations and shortness…
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Remain and Gain, or Load and Go?
Case A 22-year-old pitcher gets struck in the chest by a baseball coming off the bat while…