Ep 171 Posterior Stroke, EP Lead, HEAR Score,...

Facial trauma is common in emergency medicine, but the biggest pitfalls are often not the fractures themselves—they're the threatened airway, vision-threatening ocular injuries, missed septal hematomas, and subtle soft tissue injuries hiding beneath the skin. Which facial fractur ...  Show more

Hip complaints are bread-and-butter emergency medicine—but every so often they are anything but straightforward. The obvious shortened, externally rotated leg after a fall is one thing; the patient with acute hip pain, a normal x-ray, unremarkable blood work, and no clear diagnos ...  Show more

Announcements: The interactive Clinical Pathways have launched and they are available for free! In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the March 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article on Emergency Department Management of Infective Endocarditis-Associated St ...  Show more

Oxygen therapy in stroke, physical activity, hospital rankings, MRI labeling of cardiac devices, and PFO closure are discussed in this week's podcast. 

Content covered in this episode includes: [0:42]: Question Dissection: A 35 year old man with a history of schizophrenia is brought to the E.D. for altered mental status... [4:46] Emergency medicine chapter of S2S including questions like: - What are the three causes of burns? Ho ...  Show more

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the June 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Hypertensive Emergencies: Guidelines and Best Practice RecommendationsEpidemiologyEtiologyDifferential diagnosisPrehospital careHistory and physical DiagnosticsTreatmentA ...  Show more