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Imaging Case of the Week 497 Answer

EMergucate

The knee x-rays show lateral tibial plateau fracture. This is an easily overlooked fracture especially in elderly women.

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M4Infographics: Peritonsillar Abscess

Cook County EM Blog

A quick review infographic created by our medical students! Written by Former Cook County EM MS3 Rotator, Sarah Sun Edited by Dr.

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Understanding this pathognomonic ECG would have greatly benefitted the patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Pendell Meyers Interpret this ECG first without context. You don't need context yet because this ECG is nearly pathognomonic. After having learned about benign T wave inversion pattern years ago on this blog, and having seen many cases on this blog and in my practice since then, I instantly recognize this as BTWI, a fairly common normal variant.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 059 | Dead space

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re talking about dead space. While it may sound like something from The Expanse, we’re actually talking about the physiological concept of dead space here. This is pretty core. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re talking about dead space.

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Imaging Case of the Week 498 Answer

EMergucate

The chest x-ray shows The frontal chest x-ray shows a retrocardiac density/consolidation with air bronchogram.

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Chest Tube Cutoffs | Pediatric Intubations | Pre-intubation Atropine | hs-Troponin algorithms | WCT gone wrong

JournalFeed

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 14-18, 2022. Chest Tube Cutoffs Spoon Feed: Implementation of a guideline for chest tube placement with pneumothorax size cutoff of ≤35 mm in stable patients increased rates of observation for pneumothorax, with no apparent increase in rates of complication or observation failure. Pediatric Intubations Spoon Feed: There was no difference in first pass success rate or hypoxemic events when children were intubated with videolaryngoscopy (VL) versus dir

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Imaging Case of the Week 499

EMergucate

This chest x-ray is from a 30 year old with hemoptysis. What can be seen?

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Lab case 355

EMergucate

70 year old man brought to ED with ROSC after cardiac arrest. He remained bradycardic after multiple doses of adrenalin.

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