Tag: Neurologic

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Glascow Coma Scale – Pediatric (pGCS)

February 16, 2022
Sam Ashoo, MD

For use in children age <2. If Child over 2 years old, standard GCS has been shown to…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Possible Rabies Exposure (Postscript 3 of 4)

February 14, 2022
angiew@ebmedicine.net

A 38-year-old man presents to urgent care after sustaining a bite from a squirrel he trapped…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Possible Rabies Exposure (Postscript 2 of 4)

February 7, 2022
angiew@ebmedicine.net

Your urgent care clinic occasionally evaluates patients for travel advice, vaccinations, and malaria prophylaxis when indicated.…

Brain Teaser (UC)

Test Your Knowledge of Possible Rabies Exposure (Postscript 1 of 4)

February 1, 2022
angiew@ebmedicine.net

A bite from which of the following wild mammals poses essentially zero risk of rabies transmission, obviating…

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.…

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 (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…

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Dermatome Map

November 29, 2021
Sam Ashoo, MD

In the October, 2021 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice titled “Emergency Department Management of Cervical Spine…