You have to be very knowledgable about occupational exposures because this is the only chief complaint that I guarantee, you will eventually manage in a colleague. LEARN THIS.
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Breast complaints are usually pretty straight forward. Just remember that all breast complaints are cancer until proven otherwise.
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Neonatal conjunctivitis is a quick topic, but has some big LIFE THREATS which you’ll need to know for both real life and your test.
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This is a concept episode for a series of lectures on Emergency Dermatology (one of my favorite topics). Over the course of several episodes, we will develop an organized, systematic, visual approach to the diagnosis of all life threatening rashes as well as the majority of the other rashes you will see in the ED.
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage is the king of life-threatening headaches and is on my differential every time. This episode will cover how to take the history, exam, testing and treatment of this devastating diagnosis.
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Babies frequently have red stuff in their diapers, and when they do, mom will rush them to the department concerned that they are having a fatal GI bleed. Usually it’s not…
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Most nutrition disorders are common sense, and we don’t really treat them in the ED very often. Vitamin D deficiency with it’s osteoporosis, Vitamin C with scurvy, and iron deficiency anemia. But there are several nutritional disorders that we do see frequently in the ED. They hide in the shadows of your most malnourished patients, and you can save them if you catch the disease in time.
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When patient’s come in with MI or shortly after having an MI, you need to think beyond “Is this another heart attack?”. There is a whole list of complications from heart attacks that you need to remember, and that is what we’re covering this week.
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tPA bleeding isn’t the most high yield scenario for your clerkship, but it is a perfect case to review the physiology of hemostasis and also might save a life when you’re a resident or attending someday.
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tPA is currently the core treatment for ischemic stroke, and this week we will discuss some of the physiology on how this drug works as well as how to remember a VERY important list of tPA contraindications.
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