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Case 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...
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How 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....
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Fourteen 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...
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How 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...
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How 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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Current Extraglottic Airway Devices and Prehospital Practices
Airway management remains a fundamental skill for all emergency physicians. Extraglottic airway devices (EGAs) have become a widely accepted means of airway management along with rescue airway devices....
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2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More
Every year, the hopeless task of keeping up with the medical literature grows even more unattainable. Will our Sisyphean burden be replaced with AI? (Read this month’s Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency...
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