Dr. McCormick presents a brief case of a woman with transient confusion and an uncommon diagnosis. Probably going to be a diagnosis of exclusion... but can definitely add to your differential diagnosis!
We've covered four of the most prominent pressors over the last few weeks. In this final post about pressors, Dr. Di Taranti shares some pearls about peripheral administration of pressors.
Dr. Di Taranti is back again with another vasopressor bite - phenylephrine.
We're in the middle of a run of posts on vasopressors by Dr. Di Taranti. The last two weeks, we covered norepinephine and epinephrine - up today: vasopressin.
Our next post about pressors is about epinephrine. Refer to last weeks post to review norepinephrine! More to come in the following weeks, too!
PRESSORS! This post was originally submitted as a summary of many different pressors. It is great to think about them all together, but maybe not digestible in a single bite. If you want to learn about them all at once, watch Dr. Di Taranti's lecture from conference last month. Instead, we will break them down one by one, focusing on a different pressor each week, with the summary table re-presented each week to help compare. Use this as spaced repetition. Each week, remind yourself what the different receptors do. Ask yourself how one medication is different from the last. Ask yourself what dose you would start with and which patients you would use it for. Review all the pressors, but do it slowly, one bite at a time, and ease yourself in.
I recently had a case of a new rash and flu-like symptoms. Multiple negative covid and flu tests later, the differential was broadened and DRESS syndrome was diagnosed. With varying symptoms, incomplete presentations, and a delayed onset from drug exposure, this can be tough to diagnose! Be sure to include DRESS syndrome on your differential for rash with systemic symptoms!
Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening condition that, if you don't specifically consider and evaluate for it, you might miss! Dr. Fenderson has you covered with some basics of tamponade and it's diagnosis.
A quick summary chart of sedation levels from Dr. Guo. This is important when considering procedural sedation in the emergency department - using a standard language helps to clarify our goals and the risks when planning sedations.
