Daily Em Pearl, 4/30/12

A middle aged man p/w constipation x4days, no n/v/fever. He is on methadone 120mg PO qday, chronically, 2/2 h/o IVDU. He has tried lots of OTCs, as well as prune juice and metamucil w/o relief. How can you help?

Daily Em Pearl, 4/27/12

A middle-aged lady presents to the ED but won’t tell the triage nurse what’s wrong. “I need to see a doctor, is all.” Turns out she has a rectal foreign body. On xray it appears to be an apple. On digital exam you ca…

Gel Contamination

On April 18 the FDA released an alert regarding Other-Sonic Generic Ultrasound Transmission Gel, manufactured by Pharmaceutical Innovations Inc. The ultrasound gel was found to be contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella oxyt…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/24/12

A young man presents with a slam dunk appendicitis. You start IV abx, order pre-op labs and request surg to come see the patient. Surgery chats with the young fellow, lays hands on his abd and reviews the labs and CT. They recommend IV abx…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/23/12

A young man is brought in by his buddy because he’s “freaking out.” He isn’t making any sense to you but expresses fear that he’s going to die. He is having visual hallucinations. The friend reports they were h…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/21/12

An elderly man presents to the ED after falling down a flight of stairs at home. He has mild but worsening dementia and his wife called EMS when he couldn’t stand up from the fall. Your patient still does his own ADLs but is progressi…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/20/12

A young woman precipitously delivers a 34wk gestation neonate in your ED. The mother is physically doing well and you turn your attention to the neonate, whose HR is 105 but falling. You prepare for a possible neonatal intubation and alert…

Ponte Vedra Ultrasound Course 2012

We are pleased to present our annual critical care ultrasound pre-conference course at the Clinical Decision Making in Emergency Medicine symposium in Ponte Vedra, Florida on Wednesday, June 20. Each year this intensive, hands on course fea…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/19/12

A 6yoM is brought by his guardian for intermittent crying, c/o abd pain for the past two days; he has vomited 4times over the past 2days. He has had no fever and has never had anything like this before.  At home his urine has been dark, and…

Daily Em Pearl, 4/18/12

Early in the morning, a young man p/w R-great toe pain after having his foot stepped on while dancing last night (a few hours ago). On exam, you appreciate full ROM and strength but your patient is pretty uncomfortable. He took paracetamol…

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