ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Clutching your Perles
What type of EKG changes may be seen following ingestion of this medication, often prescribed for an upper respiratory infection? AV block Diffuse ST elevation Prolonged QTc Widened QRS [Author’s own image] [+]
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Mucous Membrane Mystery
The patient is a healthy 14-year-old male without past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Appearing Umbilicus
The patient is a 70-year-old female with a remote history of breast [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Bilateral Leg Swelling with a Uterine Twist
The patient is a 40-year-old female who presents to the Emergency Department with bilateral leg swelling. Her symptoms started six days prior and have [+]
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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Clutching your Perles
What type of EKG changes may be seen following ingestion of this medication, often prescribed for an upper respiratory infection? AV block Diffuse ST elevation Prolonged QTc Widened QRS [Author’s own image] [+]
Stephanie Teeling, [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Bilateral Leg Swelling with a Uterine Twist
The patient is a 40-year-old female who presents to the Emergency Department with bilateral leg swelling. Her symptoms started six days prior and have [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Curious Case of Abdominal Pain
The patient is a 22-year-old G0P0 female who presents to the Emergency Department with two days of left lower quadrant [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Quirky Quincke’s
The patient is a 38-year-old male with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with chief complaint of “swollen uvula” that [+]
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Tranq dope (fentanyl-xylazine combination): A new horizon in opioid withdrawal treatment
‘Dope' is no longer heroin in an increasing number of our communities. The biggest change has been the gradual replacement of diacetylmorphine (heroin) by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Due in large part to the proliferation of anonymous chemical factories able to produce industrial volumes of inexpensive synthetic opioids without opium or other controlled precursors, fentanyl spilled into the United States, Canada, and Europe, heroin soon fell to market forces [1, 2]. Along the [+]
How I Educate Series: Stephanie Lareau, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Stephanie Lareau, the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director and Medical Director of Emergency Services at Virginia Tech Carilion Clinic. Dr. Lareau spends approximately 50% of [+]
The Fall of FOAM
The landscape of emergency medicine and critical care (EM/CC) blogs and podcasts has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The number of free, open-access EM/CC blogs and podcasts has plummeted. As [+]
How I Educate Series: Molly Estes, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Molly Estes, the Clerkship Director and Medical Education Fellowship Director at Loma Linda University. Dr. Estes spends approximately 80% of her shifts with learners [+]
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20 Tips for Career Success and Longevity in Emergency Medicine
Photo by Snapwire on Pexels.com The practice of emergency medicine (EM) is consistently challenging. At any given moment during a shift, emergency physicians are responsible for making numerous decisions about multiple patients. Many of these decisions are time-sensitive, some a matter of life or death. Physical, intellectual, and spiritual fatigue can set in during or after a shift. Our consultants, clinic physicians, or hospital administrators rarely understand the roller coaster we ride. Out of necessity, those [+]
How I Stay Healthy in EM: Keith Henry
Image 1: Prepping for a shift! This month on our “How I stay Healthy” series, we’re featuring Dr. Keith Henry, director of medical student education at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, [+]
How I Work Smarter: Geoff Comp, DO
One word that best describes how you work? Deliberate Current mobile device iPhone 7 Computer MacBook Pro What is something you are working on now? I am working on a series of [+]
How I Work Smarter: Meenal Sharkey, MD
One word that best describes how you work? Thoroughly Current mobile device iPhone 11 -- my whole life runs because of this phone! Computer MacBook Pro -- thank goodness for the iCloud that [+]
