Emergency Medicine Cases

When to image, when to wait, and what to do when the ideal test isn’t available are often far more nuanced than they appear. In this EM Cases episode, Dr. Amit Shah joins Anton to tackle some of the toughest everyday imaging decisions: How much should cumulative radiation exposure influence our decision to order another CT? In suspected appendicitis, when is it safe to wait f...

There are few things more frustrating for an Emergency Physician than caring for patient after patient who lands in the ED not because it’s necessarily the best place for their care, but because every other door in the health care system was closed, confusing or impossible to find. Emergency Medicine and Primary Care often operate in different worlds—one built around rapid di...

Five patients present with possible Wolff-Parkinson-White—but the ECGs tell five very different stories. From palpitations mislabeled as anxiety to narrow- and wide-complex tachyarrhythmias, pseudo-infarction patterns, and a true occlusion MI hidden by pre-excitation, these cases highlight the many faces of WPW. Learn how to recognize intermittent pre-excitation, distinguish ...