Jan 27, 2025
Contributor: Meghan Hurley, MD
Educational Pearls:
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Gastroenteritis clinical diagnoses:
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Diarrhea with or without vomiting and fever
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Vomiting in the absence of diarrhea has a large list of differential diagnoses, so the combination of diarrhea and vomiting in a patient is helpful to indicate the gastroenteritis...
Jan 20, 2025
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD
Educational Pearls:
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If a patient sustains a cut, the provider has several options on how to close the wound. If they choose to suture the wound closed, it involves needles both in the form of injecting numbing medication (lidocaine) as well as with the suture itself. Other techniques are...
Jan 13, 2025
Contributor: Jorge Chalit-Hernandez, OMS3
Educational Pearls:
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Serotonin syndrome occurs most commonly due to the combination of monoamine oxidase inhibition with concomitant serotonergic medications like SSRIs
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Examples of unexpected monoamine oxidase inhibitors
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Linezolid - a last-line antibiotic reserved for...
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Jan 6, 2025
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD
Educational Pearls:
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Many patients present to the ED with elevated BP
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Many are referred from outpatient surgery centers or present after an elevated measurement at home
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Persistent questions on the best way to treat these patients
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The AHA published a scientific statement on the...