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?
Orbital compartment syndrome is a critical diagnosis to make and treat promptly. Are you prepared to recognize it and perform the vision-saving procedure?
Last week, we covered the basics of adult pneumonia, focusing on community acquired pneumonia (CAP). This week, will we cover the pathogens and treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) & ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP).
Over the last few weeks, we covered pediatric coughs, finishing with pediatric pneumonia. This week, we will continue along this trend and discuss community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the adult population.
More pediatric coughs! Here we review basics of pediatric pneumonia
We continue our series of pediatric coughs. Up this week: pertussis
Last week we started reviewing pediatric coughs by discussing croup. Here, we review the basics of bronchiolitis.
The next few weeks we will be highlighting different scary pediatric coughs. We start with croup --
Rarely a shift goes by when one doesn't consider meningitis on the differential. Here we review the basics of this disease, including most common organisms, recommended antibitioc treatment, and more!
There is a seemingly endless number of inborn errors of metabolism, and many of these children can present acutely to the emergency room. As emergency medicine physicians, we may not be experts in each of these diseases - but we still need to know how to resuscitate and care for these patients. Below is a general outline on how to approach most inborn errors of metabolism and general guidelines for resuscitation (besides the usual ABCs, IV, O2, monitor).
