PEM Pearls: To Scan or Not to Scan? CT Abdomen in Children with Blunt Torso Trauma
January 29, 2021
An 18-month-old female with no past medical history is brought in by ambulance after a motor vehicle collision (MVC) at highway speed, restrained in an...
Carli R. Haasbroek, MD
SAEM Clinical Image Series: The Insidious Rash
January 25, 2021
A 60-year-old African American female with a history of hypertension presents to the emergency department for an itchy, diffuse rash. She first noticed the lesions...
Monica Mitta
SAEM Clinical Image Series: What Lies Beneath?
January 11, 2021
A 35-year-old male with a history of diabetes and pericarditis, status post pericardiectomy 3 years ago, presented with a painful lesion on his anterior chest...
Jamie Fried
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Left Ear Mass
A 25-year-old male who was previously healthy presents to the emergency department with a painful left posterior ear mass. The mass began as a “pimple”...
Gabriela Rivera-Camacho, MD
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Blisters, Bullae, and Badness
January 4, 2021
A 3-year-old female with a history of epilepsy presents with a rash that began one day ago. The patient started becoming fussy four days ago,...
Amanda Gonzalez, MD
SAEM Clinical Image Series: The Hemorrhaging Bifurcated Tongue
December 21, 2020
A 26-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department for tongue bleeding for one day. Five days prior he had an...
Maria Dharini Arulraja, MD
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Shortness of Breath
A 60-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) for respiratory distress. Emergency medical services reports that the patient was in respiratory distress upon arrival,...
Najee Abou-Arraj, MD
ACEP E-QUAL Podcast: Buprenorphine After Opiate Overdose
December 18, 2020
The opiate epidemic continues to be a frontline issue for healthcare systems across the country. The American College of Physicians (ACEP) Emergency Quality (E-QUAL) Network,...
Moises Gallegos, MD MPH
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Oral Trauma and Mass
December 14, 2020
A 38-year-old African American male without a significant past medical history presented with an oral mass. He was struck on the mouth by a wrench...
Han Wei Zheng, MD
ACEP E-QUAL: ACEP Non-STEMI Clinical Policy
December 7, 2020
In 2018, the American College of Physicians (ACEP) released a Clinical Policy with management recommendations for patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with concern...
ACEP E-QUAL: The Electronic ICU
December 4, 2020
Building on already increasing interest in telehealth, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development and implementation of telemedicine services in a variety of clinical settings....
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Eye Pain After Assault
November 30, 2020
A 33-year-old male presents with intermittent blurry vision and left eye pain for 3 months, and a left-sided orbital headache for 1 day. He reports...
Lauren J. Kraut, MD