Background: Headache is a common presentation to the emergency department (ED) accounting for 2% of all visits . Of the patients that present with headache,1 – 3% will be due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) . SAH is a true diagnostic ...
Background: CT coronary angiography (CTCA) is a relatively new technology that has gained popularity over the past few years in evaluating patients presenting with chest pain. CTCA is an anatomic test that has been shown to increase downstream testing and increase healthcare ...
This year ACEP 2018 took place in San Diego, CA from Oct 1st– 4th, 2018. There were lots of amazing speakers and topics as was evidenced by the eruption of everyone’s twitter feeds with the #ACEP18 hashtag. I was fortunate ...
If you mainly treat adults or both adults and children like me, then you have probably heard the (very annoying) quote, “kids are not just small adults”, and so I won’t say it again. Well, I guess I just did, ...
Background: CCTA has become a popular modality in the ED setting to assess anatomic atherosclerotic disease in patients presenting with chest pain. Advocates of CCTA feel that CCTA has a greater accuracy in identifying obstructive coronary artery disease and identification of ...
Background: CCTA has become a popular modality in the ED setting to assess anatomic atherosclerotic disease in patients presenting with chest pain. Advocates of CCTA feel that CCTA has a greater accuracy in identifying obstructive coronary artery disease and identification of ...
Definition: Accidental hypothermia is an unintentional core body temperature of < 35°C when heat loss to surroundings is greater than heat generation Most frequent cause is environmental exposure Patient with impaired thermoregulation can develop hypothermia in relatively warm environments Elderly, ...
Background: Currently, several medications are recommended for the management of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response in the emergency department including calcium channel blockers, beta blockers and digoxin (the optimal choice is still up for debate). Magnesium sulfate may play a role ...
I was asked to give a talk at ACEP 2018 on Building the Perfect Curriculum and given 25 minutes to make this happen. As you can imagine there is no way the entirety of building a perfect curriculum can be ...
Background: For the 1st time we have 4 generations in the workplace. The reasons for this include, people are living longer on one end of the scale and there has been a huge acceleration in speed of information leading to quicker development ...
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