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A Test of Limitations - Urine Drug Screens
The urine drug screen (UDS) is a relatively inexpensive and quick test to obtain in the emergency department, but how useful is it?. You may be tempted to order it for a patient who comes in altered or intoxicated. Before ordering, it is important to understand how the UDS works and its limitations.
Diagnostics: Ocular Ultrasound
Ocular Ultrasound is an increasing presence in the portfolio of specific tests within the Emergency Physicians’s toolbox of early recognition of pathology. Dr. Logan Ramsey takes a dives into the indications and evidence of ocular ultrasound
To Appendectomy or Not to Appendectomy: The Alvarado Score
Appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency that emergency physicians encounter each year. The prevalence of appendicitis in the US is estimated at 7%, with an incidence of 9.38 per 10,000 people annually [1,2]. Appendicitis shares many signs, symptoms, and laboratory features with other acute medical and surgical conditions, including diverticulitis, nephrolithiasis, and ovarian pathologies like tubo-ovarian abscess and ovarian torsion. Diagnostic tools such as the Alvarado score are designed to help emergency clinicians sharpen their diagnostic acumen by stratifying the likelihood of appendicitis based on scoring systems