ACEP’s New Online Resource: Conversations with Industry
ACEP’s Conversations with Industry initiative is a new way for ACEP members to learn about industry products, services, and treatments in this socially distant era. While you may not be able to see...
View ArticleCushions Help Larger COVID-19 Patients with Proning
The Prone2Help founders, from left: Dr. Richard Levitan, Dan Levitan, and Robert Levitan. Richard Levitan As COVID-19 cases continued to escalate in the United States in April 2020, Richard M. Levitan,...
View ArticleCase Report: Blunt Tracheal Injury Creates Difficult Airway
A 34-year-old male was involved in a motorcycle rollover. His vehicle hit a pole, and he was hit in the throat with the handlebars of his bike. He presents alert and awake, with gross facial and neck...
View ArticleED Management of Drowning
Drowning is any degree of respiratory impairment because of immersion or submersion in a liquid.1 It is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, and there are an estimated 4,000...
View ArticleHow To Use SALAD To Manage Unstable Epistaxis and the Airway
Standard reviews of epistaxis in the emergency medicine literature center on the epidemiology, etiology, whether the bleeding is anterior or posterior, and methods by which bleeding can be controlled....
View ArticleFourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023
Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. “Gotta catch ‘em all!” may be an appealing mantra, however it is impracticable to achieve with the medical...
View ArticleHow To Manage Tracheo-Innominate Fistula
A 24-year-old male with history of quadriplegia and traumatic brain injury presents to the emergency department with hemorrhage in his oral cavity and blood from his tracheostomy tube. He has had a...
View ArticleHow To Manage Adult Asthma
This past summer, it became quite apparent that larger and more intense forest fires were contributing to poor health in the United States.1 One of the consequences of the increase in forest fires was...
View ArticleVisual Dx Question: What Is Causing This Sore Throat?
Question: A 22-year-old man presents with a sore throat. What is the diagnosis? Epiglottitis Peritonsillar abscess Retropharyngeal abscess Uvulitis See the answer here. The post Visual Dx Question:...
View ArticleVisual Dx Answer: a) Epiglottitis
Answer: The correct answer is a) Epiglottitis Epiglottitis is a potentially life-threatening inflammation of the epiglottis and supraglottic space caused by infection (e.g., Haemophilus influenzae type...
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