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Hyponatremia: The Optimal Way to Make Your Patient Saltier
CASE History 80 yo M with a PMHx of bladder, prostate, and pharyngeal cancer with metastases to the liver and lungs, DVT, TIA with no...
Management of Transfusion-dependent Aplastic Anemia
CASE Pt was a middle-aged AA woman with PMH of uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, and aplastic anemia who presented to the ED due to a 1-week...
How Much Fluid Can Be Given for CHF Patients with Sepsis?
CASE A 55 y.o. male with PMH of IVDU, MRSA endocarditis, COPD, chronic discitis and osteomyelitis, HFrEF (EF 40-45%) L common femoral DVT...
Un-stabilizing the Stable PE
CASE 63 y/o M with PMH of CHF, CKD, CAD, DM II (on insulin), Sinus bradycardia (pacemaker), substance abuse, HIV, history of pulmonary...
Fournier's Gangrene: Not Your Garden Variety Genital Infection
CASE A middle-aged male patient with a past medical history of diabetes mellitus (uncontrolled), HTN, and necrotizing fasciitis of the...
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome: Are Antipsychotics the Answer?
CASE 25-year-old female presenting with worsening abdominal pain over the past one year. She describes it as a sharp, episodic and...
Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in the ED: When to Volume Resuscitate?
CASE 70 year-old female with a past medical history of stage IV inflammatory breast carcinoma complicated by bony metastases,...
Urine Good Hands: ED Management of Renal Transplant Patients
CASE History of Present Illness 71yo man with past medical history of hypertension and ESRD status post kidney transplant 9 days ago...
SCIWORA? Sci-what’s that?
CASE A 95-year-old female presented to the ED after a mechanical fall into the grass of her front yard, striking her back and her head,...
Diagnostic Modality Efficacy for Kidney Stone Presentation
Fig. 1 (left): Ultrasound showing calculi at left ureterovesical junction Fig. 2 (right): CT scan showing the same stone at left UVJ...
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