Medical Category: Renal and Genitourinary

REBEL Review 72: Treatment of Low-Flow (Ischemic) Priapism

by Salim Rezaie posted November 1, 2015 No Comments

REBEL Cast Episode 15: MET for Renal Colic & Use of Broselow Tape to Estimate Pediatric Weights

by Salim Rezaie posted August 17, 2015 No Comments

Welcome to the August 2015 REBEL Cast, where Swami, Matt, and I are going to tackle a couple of topics. First topic: renal colic. Renal colic is a commonly seen condition encountered in emergency departments and the use of medical expulsive therapy …

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Medical Expulsion Therapy in Ureteral Colic: An Update

by Anand Swaminathan posted August 6, 2015 No Comments

Back in August 2014, we posted an in depth review on medical expulsion therapy (MET) with tamsulosin in patients with renal colic. The summary of that post was: “Clearly, there is disagreement in the literature. None of the studies are …

Renal and Genitourinary

Does Use of Tamsulosin in Renal Colic Facilitate Stone Passage?

by Anand Swaminathan posted August 7, 2014 No Comments

Renal colic is a common ED presentation. Rarely does a day go by that we don’t see a patient rocking and rolling in acute renal colic. Dan Firestone makes an impassioned argument against the use of CT scanning for diagnosis …

Renal and Genitourinary