Mucormycosis: What are we missing?
Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit; EM Resident at SAUSHEC; USAF) // Editor: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD (@JBright2021) A 42 year-old female with poorly controlled type II...
View ArticleLVAD Patients: What You Need to Know
Author: Sumintra Wood, MD (EM Resident Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY) Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident, SAUSHEC, USAF) A 62 year-old...
View ArticleOncologic Emergencies Part I: Pearls and Pitfalls
Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD (@JBright2021) Case 1: A 73 year-old male presents with several weeks...
View ArticleOral contrast for CT abdominal imaging
Author: Laurel Barr, MD (EM Attending Physician, Memorial Hospital Marysville Ohio) Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) You begin...
View ArticleHigh Altitude Pulmonary Edema: Diagnosis, Management, and Preventive Strategies
Author: Linda Sanders, MD (EM Resident Physician, Temple University Hospital) Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) Case: A 32...
View ArticleInternational Emergency Medicine – A Reflection on Haiti
(Or, as it really was, an unforgettable, life-changing experience) Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) Editor: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) As emergency medicine...
View ArticleOncologic Emergencies Part II: Pearls and Pitfalls
Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD (@JBright2021) Case 1: A 55 year-old male with a history of...
View ArticlePsoas Abscess: Pearls and Pitfalls
Author: Michele Callahan, MD (EM Resident Physician, University of Maryland Dept of Emergency Medicine) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at...
View ArticleThe Scary Airway Series Part II: Mastering Obesity, Peds, and Burns
Author: Francesca Civitarese, DO (EM Attending Physician, UTSW / Parkland Memorial Hospital) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD (@JBright2021) We’ve all heard it at one...
View ArticlePearls and Pitfalls of Salicylate Toxicity in the Emergency Department
Authors: Samantha Berman, MD (EM Resident Physician, RWJMS) and Josh Bucher, MD (EMS Fellow, Morristown Medical Center) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD (@JBright2021)...
View ArticlePopliteal Artery Injury from Blunt Trauma: A Trauma Case
Author: Stephen Alerhand MD (@SAlerhand) (Resident Physician, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman MD (@EMHighAK) EMS notification “19 y/o M found sitting on curb after...
View ArticleMimics of Sepsis: What do ED Physicians Need to Know?
Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK, EM Attending Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center / Parkland Memorial Hospital)...
View ArticleFluid Choice in Sepsis: Does it matter?
Authors: Adrianna Levesque, MD (Senior EM Resident at SAUSHEC, US Army) and Brit Long (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) & Justin Bright, MD...
View ArticleHemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS): Pearls and Pitfalls
Authors: Drew Long, BS (@drewlong2232, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, US Army) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK,...
View ArticleEndophthalmitis Highlights
Authors: Michael Purcell (EM Resident Physician, OSU Wexner Medical Center) and Mark J. Conroy, MD (Assistant Professor of EM, OSU Wexner Medical Center) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (EM Attending...
View ArticleSubtle ECG Findings in ACS: Part I Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
Authors: Jamie Santistevan, MD (EM Resident Physician, University of Wisconsin, @Jamie_Rae_EMDoc) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (EM Attending Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center / Parkland...
View ArticleSubtle ECG findings in ACS: Part II Hyperacute T-Waves
Author: Jamie Santistevan MD (@jamie_rae_EMDoc, EM Resident Physician, University of Wisconsin) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK, EM Attending Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center /...
View ArticleSubtle ECG Findings in ACS: Part III Benign Early Repolarization vs. Anterior...
Author: Jamie Santistevan, MD (@jamie_rae_EMDoc, Senior EM Resident Physician, University of Wisconsin) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (EM Attending Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center / Parkland...
View ArticleSplenic Infarction in Mononucleosis: Pearls and Pitfalls
Author: Kristen Kann, MD (EM Staff Physician, SAUSHEC, USAF) // Edited by: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Chief Resident at SAUSHEC, USAF) and Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) An 18 year-old male recently...
View ArticleCase – Blunt Trauma to the Neck
Author: Brett A Hayzen, MD (EM Chief Resident, UTSW / Parkland Memorial Hospital) // Edited by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK, EM Attending Physician, UTSW / Parkland Memorial Hospital) and Brit Long, MD...
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