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What’s Your Diagnosis? Life-Threatening Secondary Headaches in Pediatric Patients

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

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…