Test Your Knowledge: Pediatric Chest Pain

Pediatric chest pain is a relatively common presenting complaint, but identifying serious pathologies without overtesting patients…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flank Pain. CT with or without contrast?

Hx: A middle aged man presents with flank pain. He has no past medical history and…

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

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

Test Your Knowledge: Thoracic Aortic Syndromes in the Emergency Department

Acute aortic syndromes include aortic dissection, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer, and intramural hematomas, but aortic dissection is…

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

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

Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score (ADD-RS)

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