Back again with another month’s worth of interesting, inane, or sometimes important emergency medicine literature. As always, podcast version on BroomeDocs or YouTube.
lumbar puncture
6 posts
This is a guest post by Brian Lee and Dennis Ren: Dr. Brian Lee is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Dr Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine […]
Headache is a very common presenting complaint in emergency medicine, and most patients have a benign cause. (Davenport 2002) However, approximately 1% of patients will be diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. (Goldstein 2016; Carpenter 2016) Subarachnoid hemorrhage has a high mortality, with 25% of patients dying within 24 hours and […]
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 […]
