Aug 25, 2025
Contributor: Taylor Lynch, MD
Educational Pearls:
What is atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response (AFib with RVR) and how does it differ from atrial fibrillation (AFib)?
- AFib is an abnormal heart rhythm in which the heart has disorganized atrial electrical activity. This causes the atria to quiver with only...
Aug 22, 2025
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD
Educational Pearls:
Recorded March 2025
What is the best treatment for a fever? Tylenol? Ibuprofen? Combined? Alternating the two?
- The journal Pediatrics aimed to answer this question with a meta-analysis of 31 randomized controlled trials including 5,009 febrile children.
- Results showed...
Aug 11, 2025
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD
Educational Pearls:
- There are many techniques for reducing a shoulder dislocation
- A recent study discussed a new variation of closed reduction
technique: wrist-clamping shoulder-lifting
- The patient is in a sitting position
- The provider holds the wrist of the injured arm with both...
Aug 4, 2025
Contributor: Megan Hurley MD
Educational Pearls:
Acute toxicity of heavy metals:
- Gastrointestinal upset is the most common presentation
Chronic toxicity of heavy metals:
- Symptoms depend on the metal ingested
- Increased risk of cancer
- Altered mentation
- Developmental delays (in children)
- Kidney failure
Four heavy...