The patient was a 65-year-old healthy, white, married, non-drinking, non-smoking educated male who presented to our ED complaining of generalized illness and shortness of breath.
A 53-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and type-2 diabetes mellitus presented to our emergency department (ED) with a three-day history of worsening back pain.
This case highlights consequences of VPA toxicity; it also demonstrates an opportunity to improve patient safety and high-value care by collaborating with outpatient pharmacies in the medication reconciliation process upon hospital discharge.
A 55-year-old man with no cardiac history collapsed at work. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initiated promptly, and initial rhythm on emergency medical services (EMS) personnel arrival was asystole.
We describe the case of a 29-year-old previously healthy man who presented to an urban emergency department (ED) in the North Central U.S. with fever, hip pain, severe hypoxemia, and diffuse pulmonary infiltrates.
A 57 year-old man with past medical history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and end-stage renal disease was transferred from his dialysis center after suffering a cardiac arrest.
A 36-year-old man was brought to our emergency department after successful resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with the whole spectrum of neurocardiogenic effects in subarachnoid hemorrhage: electrocardiographic changes, regional wall motion abnormalities, and elevations of cardiac enzymes.
A 49-year-old female with a past medical history of hypothyroidism, prurigo nodularis, and depression presented to our emergency department (ED) with one day of gradual onset of sore throat, dysphagia, odynophagia, and chills
After missing for seven days, a 34-year-old female was found with a rectal temperature of 19.8oC. Instead of attempting aggressive rewarming in the emergency department she was directly transferred to the operating room for extracorporeal rewarming.
A 23 year old female G1P0, with a history of hypothyroidism and polycystic kidney disease presented to the ED with 1 week of pelvic pain and 1 day of vaginal bleeding.
The authors herein present the case of a 53-year-old female who was being treated as an outpatient for seizure disorder but was also receiving high-dose methadone therapy.
An 18-year-old woman presented to the ED with one-day history of RLQ abdominal pain. She described the pain as constant with an acute worsening approximately three hours prior to arrival.
A 36-year-old Ecuadorian male was transferred from a rural health center to a district-level hospital with worsening right lower leg pain, edema, and skin discoloration following a snakebite in a remote area of the Amazon seven days prior.
A three-month-old full term male was brought to the pediatric ED by his grandmother for evaluation of “jerking” activity worsening in frequency and severity for approximately three weeks.
A 19-year-old male presented to our institution complaining of abdominal pain for two weeks. He reported that he initially felt constipated and started taking over-the-counter medications to self-treat his condition.
here is a subset of patients who suffer a witnessed ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrest and despite receiving reasonable care with medications (epinephrine and amiodarone) and multiple defibrillations (3+ attempts at 200 joules of biphasic current) remain in refractory VF (RVF), also known as electrical storm. The mortality for these patients is as high as 97%. We present the case of a patient who, with a novel approach, survived RVF to outpatient follow up.
Our study sought to examine the opioid analgesic (OA) prescribing decisions of emergency department (ED) providers who have themselves used OA therapeutically and those who have not. A second objective was to determine if OA prescribing decisions would differ based on the patient’s relationship to the provider.
A 21-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department (ED) with severe sepsis. Both the mechanism of infection and organisms discovered were unusual.
It is important to rapidly diagnosis and treat rhabdomyolysis in order to decrease morbidity and mortality. To date there are no reports in the emergency medicine literature on the use of point-of-care ultrasound in the diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis.
