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What’s Your Diagnosis? Current Practice and Pitfalls of Select Biomarkers in the Emergency Care of Children

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

Hx: A male in his 30s presents with abdominal pain and vomiting. He relates that he was…

Appendicitis is the most common condition in children requiring emergency abdominal surgery. Delayed or missed diagnosis…

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But before we begin, check out if you got last month’s case right, about the 8-year-old…

As bariatric procedures have become more common, more of these patients present to the emergency department…

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Patients with abdominal pain are common in the ED, but you need a strategy for quickly…

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine-Charlotte Campus,…

Case Recap: As you begin your shift, a 68-year-old woman presents with severe abdominal pain. She…

A patient suffering blunt abdominal trauma complains of suprapubic pain and has gross hematuria. Initial CT…