Whether ‘tis nobler in mind to accept The risks and benefits of empiric treatment. This is a guest post by Dr. Dennis Ren. Dennis is currently a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. He has been a guest on podcasts such as Peds Admit and […]
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This is a guest post by Seana Adams and Nelson Saddler. Seana Adams (@AdamsSeana) is a 3rd year medical student at the University of Toronto. She co-founded the initiative “Mental Health in the Black Community: A Speaker Series” which aims to create safe spaces to discuss the mental health crisis […]
I have dedicated a number of posts to the workup of low risk chest pain. There is the 5 part series demonstrating that our use of stress tests doesn’t make any sense. There is also a post demonstrating that CCTA has no role in these patients at this time. One […]
The Rapid Review series reviews the key points of a clinical review paper. The current topic: Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) The Paper: Timmons et al. (2019). Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: A review for emergency clinicians. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2019. PMID: 31097257 [paper]
At one point in history, measles was a common childhood illness, like the chicken pox of my youth. Thankfully the incidence has significantly decreased with vaccination, but the illness is now resurfacing in the face of vaccine hesitancy. Would you be able to identify and manage measles if it walked […]
The Rapid Review series is designed to briefly review the key emergency medicine points from a single clinical review paper. This post’s topic: Acute Intermittent Porphyria
This is a guest post by Bruna Dessena, with edits by Justin Morgenstern. Bruna is an ALS paramedic from South Africa, with 26 years of clinical experience. She has worked for 17 years preparing children for court as a volunteer at the Teddy Bear clinic in Johannesburg. She has also […]