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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Seeing Double

ALiEM

A 53-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of double vision on leftward gaze. Usually, MS is seen in younger patients where both eyes are affected whereas strokes occur more often in older patients and only one eye is affected.

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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Garreth Debiegun is an emergency physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and clinical assistant professor with Tufts University School of Medicine. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital.

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Running Injuries

Northwestern EM Blog

Although most of these injuries would not be considered emergent, correct diagnosis and referral of these patients is important to keep them active and decrease their likelihood of suffering the heart attacks, strokes, and chronic pain we see daily.