Background: It’s common practice to give carefully titrated supplemental oxygen therapy for patients in COPD exacerbation. We give enough O2 to prevent hypoxemia, but not so much that it causes hypoventilation or dangerous hypercarbia. If you’re like me then you’ve probably heard a number of conflicting theories as to WHY overzealous supplemental oxygen leads to […]
This post is meant to accompany the REBEL Cast episode on The Crashing Asthmatic from June 2015. This blog post will also be simultaneously posted on the Core EM site here. Come over and check out our core content offerings. Thanks to the REBEL team for continuing to promote our site! Definition: An episode of […]
Cough from respiratory illness is one of the most common reasons that patients seek care in both the outpatient primary care setting and the emergency department (ED). Cough due to respiratory illness is a self-limited condition in the majority of cases, but patients still seek care at clinics and EDs seeking relief or their symptoms. Maybe the […]
