'Emergency Medicine Thinker' is a practical pocketbook that provides important considerations for the practice of emergency medicine. Based on the popular website created by the authors, 'emDocs.ne...

Today we have Part 1 on upper GI bleeding, including background, NG tube lavage, blood product transfusion, proton pump inhibitors, prokinetic agents, somatostatin analogues, and antibiotics. 

Journal Feed covers cryoprecipitate for massive transfusion, risk of ICH with antithrombotics, and twice daily cephalexin for UTI.

What is medetomidine, and what should we look for on ECG?

Adolescent substance use is significantly more prevalent than is recognized.  The emergency department (ED) can be a great resource to acutely manage complications and help set up long term managem...

A 70-year-old male with presents with 5 days of fever and 3 days of anuria and malaise.  He also notes worsening abdominal distention and shortness of breath. He found and removed a tick 3 weeks ago...

We're back with Part 2 on a practical approach to HIV, and this time, we focus on organ-specific complications.

Journal Feed covers SAH decision rules, LV dysfunction in sepsis, and delta troponin.

Today we dive into a challenging diagnosis: non-convulsive status epilepticus.

A 61-year-old male with a history of bilateral corneal transplants due to Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy presents with progressive visual decline in his right eye over the past three days. He describes...

Description of use of nitrous oxide as an analgesic in the Emergency Department

Journal Feed brings you intensive BP lowering in stroke, liberal versus conservative fluid resuscitation in CHF and sepsis, and rewarming hypothermic patients.

High-level evidence to inform clinical decision making regarding effective and safe management of AFRVR in patients with ADHF in the acute care setting is lacking.