Tag: Cardiovascular

What's Your Diagnosis

What’s Your Diagnosis? Pediatric Chest Pain in the ED 

January 26, 2022
EB Medicine
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Welcome to this month’s What’s Your Diagnosis Challenge! But before we begin, check to see if…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Urgent Care Approach to the Syncopal Patient (Postscript 4 of 4)

December 28, 2021
angiew@ebmedicine.net

A 37-year-old woman presents to urgent care with complaints of dizziness and palpitations. She was in…

Risk Management Pitfalls (UC)

Risk Management Pitfall of Urgent Care Approach to the Syncopal Patient (Postscript 3 of 4)

December 21, 2021
angiew@ebmedicine.net

“I didn’t order a pregnancy test because her abdominal pain was mild after the vasovagal event.…

Clinical Cases

Flank Pain. CT with or without contrast?

December 15, 2021
Sam Ashoo, MD
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Hx: A middle aged man presents with flank pain. He has no past medical history and…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Urgent Care Approach to the Syncopal Patient (Postscript 2 of 4)

December 14, 2021
angiew@ebmedicine.net

A previously healthy 25-year-old man presents to urgent care with a forehead laceration. He reports that…

Brain Teaser

Test Your Knowledge: Thoracic Aortic Syndromes in the Emergency Department

December 8, 2021
EB Medicine
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Acute aortic syndromes include aortic dissection, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer, and intramural hematomas, but aortic dissection is…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Urgent Care Approach to the Syncopal Patient (Postscript 1 of 4)

December 7, 2021
angiew@ebmedicine.net

You’re reviewing this ECG of a 19-year-old patient who presented to urgent care following transient loss…

Rapid Reference

Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score (ADD-RS)

December 6, 2021
Sam Ashoo, MD

The December 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice focused on Thoracic Aortic Syndromes. Acute aortic dissection,…

Brain Teaser

Test Your Knowledge: Emergency Department Management of Syncope

July 19, 2021
EB Medicine
1 Comment

Syncope is the transient loss of consciousness and postural tone, with spontaneous recovery. It accounts for…