Jun 28, 2019
Contributor: Don Stader, MD
Educational Pearls:
- Antiplatelets include aspirin and clopidogrel, and are generally used for arterial clotting (MI, stroke)
- Anticoagulants such as coumadin, Xarelto, Eliquis are generally used for venous clotting (DVT/PE)
- Growing data suggests that dual antiplatelet therapy...
Jun 26, 2019
Contributor: Michael Hunt, MD
Educational Pearls:
- Tetracycline antibiotics such as minocycline can cause greyish hyperpigmentation
- This hyperpigmentation can sometimes be reversible but not always
- Minocycline has been used for its effects in autoimmune and neurological diseases, where it is often taken chronically,...
Jun 21, 2019
Contributor: Peter Bakes, MD
Educational Pearls:
- While there are many different types of medical error, one of the most common errors in emergency medicine is failure to diagnose
- Systematic error in thinking that negatively affects judgement
- Medical errors are often driven by cognitive biases, which include anchoring,...
Jun 19, 2019
Author: Sam Killian, MD
Educational Pearls:
- Abuse occurs by breathing in volatile substances such as solvents, glues, paints, butane, and propane
- Inhalants are generally depressants
- Estimated that 100-125 people die every year in the US from acute inhalant abuse.
- Short-term effects include memory impairment, slurred...
Jun 17, 2019
Author: Nick Hatch, MD
Educational Pearls:
- Pregnancy is a hypercoagulable state, which predisposes women to venous thromboembolism, but also elevates levels of circulating d-dimer
- A recent study evaluated the YEARS protocol in combination of adjusted d-dimer cutoffs in pregnant women to evaluate for DVT and PE