What’s Your Diagnosis? Managing Acute Cardiac Valvular Emergencies in the ED

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

Conversation – High Sensitivity Troponin

In this episode of EMplify: Conversation, Sam Ashoo, MD and TR Eckler, MD discuss high sensitivity troponin…

Pericarditis

Why do we care? Approximately 5% of emergency department visits for chest pain in North America…

NSTEMI

Why Do We Care?  In-hospital mortality rates are about the same for STEMI and NSTEMI, approximately…

Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Calculator

Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) is calculated as: 1/3 Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) + 2/3 Diastolic Blood…

STEMI ECG

“Acute myocardial infarction (MI) historically is defined as a clinical syndrome that meets a certain set…

Sodium Bicarbonate Drip

Reasons for needing a sodium bicarbonate (bicarb) drip are discussed in excellent posts by Pulm Crit and LITFL. One…

Push Dose Epinephrine

Mixing: Dose: Pharmacology Alpha and Beta (1/2) agonist. Increases blood pressure and heart rate.  Further Reading…

Push Dose Phenylephrine

Mixing Dosing Pharmacology Alpha agonist. Increases blood pressure without increasing heart rate. Can be used to…