Critical Decisions: Hyperkalemia
From the EM Model 5.0 Endocrine, Metabolic, and Nutritional Disorders 5.3 Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances Hyperkalemia, defined…
Practice Management
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Critical Decisions: Hyperkalemia
From the EM Model 5.0 Endocrine, Metabolic, and Nutritional Disorders 5.3 Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances Hyperkalemia, defined... -
Now You’re Just Being Absurd
Words have meaning. Books are published by various learned people in order to solidify the meaning and... -
Rules for the ER
Greetings to all new emergency medicine interns. Your residency program signed you up for a free monthly...
Now You’re Just Being Absurd
Words have meaning. Books are published by various learned people in order to solidify the meaning and…
Rules for the ER
Greetings to all new emergency medicine interns. Your residency program signed you up for a free monthly…
Submersion Questions
In Critical Decisions (August 2013), “Submersion Injuries,” there are two areas I would like to question. “The…
EBM and the Five Stages
I read with interest Dr. Faust’s column of June 2013 titled “EBM and the ‘Five Stages of…
The Moral Challenge of Morbidly Obese ED Patients
More than a-third of all Americans are obese.1 Morbid obesity, variously defined as either BMI > 40kg/m2…
The ER is a Cost-Effective Place to Receive Acute Care
There is a persistent narrative about emergency rooms that says they are overly expensive places to receive…
Be Careful With Creativity
So this guy (a 72-year-old male) checks in with a chief complaint of chest pain one evening….
Resident Supervision and Risk Management
We can all learn from our own mistakes – in health care, the question becomes at what…
Critical Decisions: Submersion Incidents
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.5 Submersion Incidents It is estimated that there are between…