A Fishy-Looking Bruise
An 8-year-old girl is experiencing mysterious bruising on her left shoulder. A thorough H&P reveals…
CMS Shuts Down Retroactive Billing
Have you filed your Medicare provider application? If not, better read the fine print.
Trauma Updates
At a recent All L.A. Conference, a panel of guest speakers from several emergency departments…
The Tax Man Cometh
April always starts out great: the weather warms up, baseball season begins, and my kids…
Fentanyl Abuse On the Rise
A 32-yr-old man was found in asystole after chewing and ingesting a fentanyl patch. Despite…
Lessons Learned on Pain
Seven pain plan pearls from an emergency department whose system-wide protocol never got off the…
Real Pain Protocols
A case study from the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del.
Hypothermia & the ACLS algorithm
There are a multitude of definitions and cut-off values for the varying degrees of hypothermia.…
5 ways to expand your pediatric pain management repertoire
Everyday, in EDs across the planet, children are poked and prodded. We draw blood, we…
Antibiotics for Strep Do More Harm Than Good
Military and civilian medicine have always been intertwined, but nothing compares to the strange tale…