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Crash and Burn: The Approach to the MVC Patient
Certain pathology gets a lot of attention in medical school. Stroke? Sure! Tests love asking about which vessel is blocked based on clues from the physical exam. And rightly so; a fund of medical knowledge is certainly valuable when it comes to identifying pathology such as this. However, when faced with a problem like blunt trauma, i.e. the “MVC”, one may find that there are also many practical and logistical factors that require bedside experience, ranging from marshaling of resources to reconciling patient presentation with reported mechanism of injury...
Coagulation Studies
All bleeding stops eventually... Even in your anticoagulated patients? What about that INR of 1.4? On rivaroxaban? To better know the state of anticoagulation we first must understand the tests we use to define them. Take a dive with Dr. Murphy-Crews through our anticoagulation studies
Joint Fluid Analysis in the ED
Not all swollen joints are the same and our dogmatic definitions of septic joints are changing with each new study, so how do we use synovial fluid to define our differential of the swollen joint? Join Dr. Harty in delving through the latest in synovial fluid studies in his asynchronous intern diagnostics post on joint fluid analysis.