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What’s Your Diagnosis? Gastrointestinal Foreign Body Ingestion

Welcome to this month’s What’s Your Diagnosis Challenge! But before we begin, check to see if…

Test Your Knowledge: Life-Threatening Secondary Headaches in Pediatric Patients

Headache is a common complaint in pediatric patients presenting to the emergency department. Diagnosis of life-threatening…

EKG Helpful Tips

We are back this month with a few helpful tips when reading EKGs from Jennifer Carlquist,…

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…