Test Your Knowledge: Hypotensive Patients in the Emergency Department

Hypotension can be a sign of significant underlying pathology, and if it is not rapidly identified…

Test Your Knowledge: Pediatric Diabetes

Children with diabetes mellitus are at high risk for acute life-threatening complications of their chronic disease.…

Test Your Knowledge: Methamphetamine Toxicity in the Emergency Department

Management of patients who are acutely intoxicated with methamphetamine (a member of the substituted amphetamine class…

Test Your Knowledge: Substance Use in Adolescents

Adolescent substance use continues to be a prevalent problem and is a cause of morbidity, mortality,…

Test Your Knowledge: Migraine and Other Primary Headaches in the Emergency Department

Headache is the fifth most common presenting chief complaint in emergency departments, and it is vital…

Test Your Knowledge: Nonaccidental Trauma in Pediatric Patients

Children who have suffered physical abuse may present to the healthcare setting multiple times before a…

Test Your Knowledge: Rectal Bleeding in the Emergency Department

Rectal bleeding accounts for approximately 1 out of every 1000 United States emergency department visits annually.…

Test Your Knowledge: Pediatric Macrocephaly

Although the cause of macrocephaly is found to be benign in many cases, the large differential…

Test Your Knowledge: Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department

Patients with pulmonary emboli present both diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to the emergency clinician, because initial…