How do you avoid hypoglycemia when using insulin to treat hyperkalemia? This post provides you with key pearls and pitfalls for your next shift.
You have a patient with respiratory distress due to severe pneumonia. What should you do? Do you intubate immediately, place the patient on noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or high flow nasal cannula? This post from Dr. Lentz and colleagues explores your options.
Welcome to part II of our series looking at orthopedic conditions where we may need some help... In this section, we discuss traumatic injuries requiring orthopedic consultation.
Pneumomediastinum... Where is the air coming from? Who do you consult? Are antibiotics and/or surgery needed?
Sometimes ventricular tachycardia isn't that easy to diagnose on ECG... Are there any clues that can help?
Compartment syndrome is a condition we are always on the lookout for in the ED. How do you optimize diagnosis and management of this dangerous entity?
We shouldn’t have to know how to recognize them, but… We need to be familiar with how vaccine-preventable illnesses present, the basics of management, and how to talk with the misinformed or unconvinced.
What can cause facial swelling? What should you consider? This post evaluates patients with facial swelling, providing key pearls in evaluation and management.
