COVID-19 Digest: Strokes in Young People with COVID

Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: The ED is full of painful procedures. One of the most commonly dreaded procedures is nasal packing for epistaxis, as it is quite uncomfortable for the...

24 Dec 20193min

Contributor: Sue Chilton, MD Educational Pearls: More intracardiac devices and injection drug abuse are thought to be increasing incidence of endocarditis Classic signs of endocarditis have included:...

20 Dec 20193min

Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: It can be difficult to distinguish between central and peripheral causes of vertigo. Cerebellar stroke should be considered with any dizzy patient.  Si...

17 Dec 20192min

Husband and wife Pete and Katie Bakes, both emergency physicians in the Denver-Metro area, reflect on their upbringings, the many lessons learned over their twenty year careers, and how they've evolve...

14 Dec 20191h 43min

Contributor: John Winkler, MD Educational Pearls: Vaping-related lung injury initially presents with flu-like symptoms and can progress to respiratory failure requiring aggressive resuscitation inclu...

10 Dec 20192min

Author: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: A hyphema is blood in the anterior chamber of the eye, typically caused by trauma While there is a spectrum of disease, blurred vision and eye pain are com...

5 Dec 20192min

Contributor: Peter Bakes, MD Educational Pearls: Peri-arrest patients present a particular challenge to ED providers, as the differential is broad and time is critical  The differential for near card...

3 Dec 20197min

From DU's 1st annual Colorado Behavioral Health and Wellness Summit: Contributor: Michael Miller, Strategic Initiatives Coordinator, Jefferson County Public Health

27 Nov 201956min