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Essential Tools – 1 – Finger Tourniquet

After years of experience, I have several things that I have to have when repairing certain…

GI Foreign Body Ingestion

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the May 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article…

Coding Challenge: Dental Emergencies in Urgent Care

Determine the correct evaluation and management (E/M) service code for this urgent care encounter: SUBJECTIVE 56-year-old…

Test Your Knowledge of Dental Emergencies in Urgent Care (Postscript 1 of 2)

A healthy 24-year-old man presents 2 hours after a bicycle accident in which he went over…

Test Your Knowledge of Dental Emergencies in Urgent Care (Postscript 2 of 2)

A 23-year-old woman presents with lower jaw pain after blunt trauma. She denies dental malocclusion but seems…

EKG Wisdoms

A few helpful tips when looking at EKGs from Jennifer Carlquist, PA-C, and course director of…

Risk Management Pitfalls for Pediatric Patients with Headache

Our recent issue An Evidence-Based Review of Life-Threatening Secondary Headaches in Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department…

Test Your Knowledge: Dangerous Back Pain in Children

Back pain in the pediatric population remains an unusual and concerning complaint that may be an…

Test Your Knowledge: Gunshot Wounds in the ED

Education regarding ballistic injuries in the emergency department is sparse and may rarely be encountered if…