Emergency Medicine Cases

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 fracture is most likely to cause delayed airway obstruction? Why does the physical examination often matt...

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 diagnosis is another. Hip fractures are also far from benign, carrying a 30-day mortality of 6–7% and a 1...

Stable narrow complex tachycardias are not always what they seem. In this ECG Cases, Dr. Jesse McLaren explores the key pitfalls in distinguishing sinus tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and SVT, with 8 real-world cases highlighting common ECG interpretation errors, secondary causes, and the crucial management decisions that can prevent patient harm... Please ...