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Risk Management Pitfalls for Hypertensive Emergencies in the ED

Our recent issue Hypertensive Emergencies: Guidelines and Best-Practice Recommendations reviews current evidence on identifying and managing hypertensive emergencies…

Test Your Knowledge: Pediatric Advanced Life Support Guidelines

Pediatric cardiac arrest presents an infrequent but high-stakes event for emergency clinicians, who need to maintain…

Test Your Knowledge: Hypertensive Emergencies

Due to a variety of demographic and public health factors, the number of emergency department visits…

EKG Tips for Treating Patients

This month, Jennifer Carlquist, PA-C and course director of The Urgent Care EKG Course wanted to…

Essential Tools – 2 – Laceration Kit

The most important tools we use for managing lacerations are the instruments that come in the…

Hypertensive Emergencies

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

Coding Challenge: Tick-Borne Illness in Urgent Care

Determine the correct evaluation and management (E/M) service code for this urgent care encounter: SUBJECTIVE 35-year-old…

Test Your Knowledge of Tick-Borne Illnesses in Urgent Care (Postscript 2 of 2)

A 52-year-old man arrives at your clinic in central Florida complaining of 3 days of fever,…

Test Your Knowledge of Tick-Borne Illnesses in Urgent Care (Postscript 1 of 2)

A 10-year-old girl presents to your urgent care outside of Philadelphia with a mild fever, fatigue,…