Emergency Medicine
Radiology Review
Man Thrown From Balky Bike
Following a motorcycle accident, a 55-year-old man complains of head, face, and chest wall pain. A chest radiograph clarifies some of the damage...
Radiology Review
Fast Track to Abdominal Pain
A 60-year-old woman with chronic but worsening abdominal pain presents for evaluation. She does not have a fever but is constipated and...
Grand Rounds
Woman, 36, With Fever and Malaise
A 36-year-old Bengali woman with a history of well-controlled diabetes presents to the emergency department with complaints of feeling “unwell”...
Radiology Review
When Man’s Legs “Give Out,” His Buttocks Takes the Brunt
A 75-year-old man presents to the urgent care center for evaluation of pain in his buttocks after a fall. He states he was walking when his “legs...
Radiology Review
An Alarming Slip of the Hip
After a fall, an 80-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department for evaluation of hip pain. She was getting out of bed when she slipped...
Clinical Review
Extreme Athlete, 18, With Worsening Cough
Clinical Review
Febrile, Immunocompromised Man With Rash
Radiology Review
Altered Mental Status Demands Closer Look
You receive a call from an ICU nurse regarding a patient your service is following—a 60-year-old man who was admitted for altered mental status...
Case Reports
He Huffed and He Puffed and He Got Frostbite
Radiology Review
In Middle of Trip, Woman Falls
A 70-year-old woman presents to your emergency department for evaluation of right knee pain secondary to a fall. She and her husband, in the...