Back-to-Basics: Urinary Retention
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Can't pee? All the pearls about urinary retention
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Alison Jaworski, MD
Back-to-Basics: Rectal Pain
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Approach to Rectal Pain:
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Back to Basics: Informed Consent
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You’re working a shift in the Emergency Department and your patient needs an LP. You grab an informed consent form and head into the room to discuss the procedure with the patient... Of course you know you have to discuss risks and benefits and get the patient to sign the form, but what does "informed consent" actually mean?
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A General Approach to Febrile Seizures
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A 4 year old boy, otherwise healthy, is rushed into the emergency room by his mom because she thinks he had a seizure. His mom states he was sitting on the ground playing a game on his iPad when he suddenly started having jerking movements of his entire body that eventually self resolved after around 2 minutes. He has never had a seizure before. He is up to date on vaccines and had an unremarkable birth history.
On exam, the child is not actively seizing at this time, he just seems slightly drowsy and confused. It is noted that he is febrile to 38.2 C, otherwise vitals are stable. The rest of the exam is nonfocal.
What should you be thinking about? What are your next steps?
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Back to Basics: Open Fractures
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What is an open fracture? How to we manage them? What antibiotics should you give and when?
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Back to Basics: Eclampsia
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A 28 year old woman comes into your community rural ED, only medical history is she had a baby 15 days ago. Says she’s been feeling unwell for the past week and begins to seize - what do you do?
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Back to Basics: Orbital Compartment Syndrome
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Orbital compartment syndrome is a critical diagnosis to make and treat promptly. Are you prepared to recognize it and perform the vision-saving procedure?
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Pediatric Coughs: Pneumonia
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More pediatric coughs! Here we review basics of pediatric pneumonia
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Pediatric Coughs: Pertussis
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We continue our series of pediatric coughs. Up this week: pertussis
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Pediatric Coughs: Bronchiolitis
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Last week we started reviewing pediatric coughs by discussing croup. Here, we review the basics of bronchiolitis.
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