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Modern EM: Case 1 and 2 – Strep Throat
A sister and brother, aged 7 and 14, respectively present with pharyngitis. The 7F has sore throat, cough, fever, and post-tussive vomiting for 1 day. She has posterior pharyngeal erythema, no...
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Modern EM: Case 3- Get your phones out
Sometimes on off-service morning table rounds, I like to close my tired eyes and focus my ears past the voice of the attending to hear the chorus of hundreds of pieces of paper flipping, shuffling,...
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Modern EM: Case #4 – Palpitations
Case # 4: Palpitations A 25 year old woman presents with palpitations, sweating, and shortness of breath since this morning. 6 days ago she had syncopized, was shocked out of V-tach by EMS, and...
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Trick of the Trade: External jugular tourniquet
Paitents can be a challenge when trying to obtain peripheral IV access. The vein may be collapsed from dehydration or scarred because of IV drug use or repeated cannulation. Before thinking about an...
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iClickEM: A Free EM Search Engine
Tomorrow on Monday, December 9th, Parzival is releasing 1000 access codes to the closed-beta version of iClickEM, an EM-specific search engine. iClickEM is a place where people with similar medical...
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