Dialysis Access Emergencies
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a complication associated with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and other glomerulonephropathies…
Critical Care
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Dialysis Access Emergencies
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a complication associated with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and other glomerulonephropathies... -
Abdominal Pain: A Black Box of Liability
Abdominal pain is the most common chief complaint among emergency department patients, yet firm diagnosis and etiology... -
Rapid Sequence Intubation Pharmacology
Emergency physicians have established expertise in the field of rapid sequence intubation (RSI). All emergency physicians must...
Abdominal Pain: A Black Box of Liability
Abdominal pain is the most common chief complaint among emergency department patients, yet firm diagnosis and etiology…
Rapid Sequence Intubation Pharmacology
Emergency physicians have established expertise in the field of rapid sequence intubation (RSI). All emergency physicians must…
By what criteria is it acceptable to declare death in DCD donors?
Irreversibility is consistent with legal The determination of death affects all physicians, and modern medical technology has…
Be Prepared for In-Flight Medical Emergencies
An overhead speaker rings several times and is followed by a brief burst of static. “Ladies and…
Trauma in the Obstetric Patient: A Bedside Tool
Trauma is the number one cause of pregnancy-associated maternal deaths in the United States.1 Concerns about the…
Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI)
e The Case You have a 50-year-old male with bad bilateral pneumonia; BP 108/70, HR 96, RR…
Reversal of Anticoagulation
Emergency physicians routinely encounter patients who are receiving some form of anticoagulant therapy. This population becomes increasingly…
Bedside Ultrasound of the Abdominal Aorta
Abdominal, back, and flank pain are some of the more common presenting complaints of patients for whom…
I’ll Never Forget
If you practice emergency medicine long enough, you begin to accumulate a handful of experiences that you…