Section 3.2:

SYMPTOMS, SIGNS & SITUATIONS

3.2.1. Pain

Chest/thoracic pain

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 26 – Chest Pain”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Chest Pain History”

Quick Summary; Core EM: "Chief Complaint – Chest Pain"

Practice updates; emDocs: “Chest Pain: What is the Value of a Good History?”, 2015

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Chest pain + notes”, 2011

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Chest Pain (Ep.8)”, 2015

Review + Podcast; EM Cases: “Acute Coronary Syndromes Risk Stratification”, 2011

Practice updates; emDocs: “Medical Malpractice Insights: “You’re not having a heart attack””, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Pediatric Chest Pain”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Management and Disposition of Low Risk Chest Pain”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Chest Pain Controversies: Risk Stratification and Stress Test Utility (Part 1)”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Chest Pain Controversies: Coronary CTA Use (Part 2)”, 2016

Quick Summary + 📺; EMDaily: “Back to Basics: Pediatric Chest Pain”, 2017

Abdominal pain/distension

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 27 – Abdominal Pain”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 33 – Acute Pelvic Pain in Women”, 2017

Quick Summary; AliEM: "10 Tips for Approaching Abdominal Pain in the Elderly", 2013

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Abdominal pain”, 2011

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Extra-Abdominal Causes of Abdominal Pain (Ep.22)”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “RUQ Pain Masqueraders”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Guidelines for Imaging: Abdominal Pain in the Pediatric and Gravid Populations”, 2015

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Abdominal Pain - Diagnostic Studies”

Flank pain

Pain and/or swelling of the extremities

Practice updates; emDocs: “The patient with bilateral leg edema: what tests are warranted?”, 2016 ???

Headache

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 20 – Headache”, 2016

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 103 – Headache Disorders”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Headache”, 2011

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Headache in the Emergency Department”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Headache Management in the ED”, 2017

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 16 – Headaches”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Post LP Headache”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Headache Management: Best Current Evidence for the ED”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Thunderclap Headache – Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook: “Pediatric Headache: Some Relief for All”, 2017

Joint pain and/or swelling

Review; Core EM: “Approach to Traumatic Shoulder Pain”

Scrotal and/or testicular pain and/or swelling

Back pain

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 35 – Back Pain”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.26: Low Back Pain Emergencies”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Killer Back Pain (Ep.39)”, 2016

Review; Core EM: “Non-Traumatic Low Back Pain”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Back pain”, 2011

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Lumbar Radiculopathy”, 2017

Review; ALiEM: “Atraumatic Low Back Pain”, 2017

Review; ALiEM: “High risk back pain: Cauda Equina Syndrome (EREM)”, 2014

Anal pain

Eye pain

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 210 – Red and painful eye”, 2020

Ear pain

Nose pain

Throat pain

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “E221: Sore Throat”, 2020

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 23 – Sore Throat”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Strep Throat Mimics: Pearls & Pitfalls”, 2016

Dysuria

Dyspareunia

Vaginal/vulva pain or testicular pain and/or swelling

Neck pain

3.2.2. Other Symptoms

Dyspnea

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 25 – Dyspnea”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Approach to Tachypnea in the ED Setting”, 2016

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Shortness of breath”, 2011

Quick Summary; Core EM: "Dyspnea"

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 14 – Cyanosis”, 2016

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Does Your Dyspneic Patient Have CHF?”

Fever/chills

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 12 – Fever in the Adult Patient”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Evaluation of Fever in the Emergency Department”, 2016

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hyperthermia”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Febrile infants”, 2011

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.48 – Pediatric Fever Without A Source”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Fever in returning traveler part 1”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Fever in returning traveler part 2”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.77 Fever in the Returning Traveler”

Quick Summary; emDocs/Tox Card: “Hyperthermia in the toxicological setting”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Fever in the Returning Traveler: Systematic ED Approach”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs/Peds EM morsel: “Fever of Unknown Origin”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Fever Without a Source - neonate”

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Pediatric Fever Without a Source - 3 months to 3 years”

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Pediatric Fever Without a Source - Infant”

Palpitations

Nausea

Pruritus

Decreased sensation and paresthesias

Weakness

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 13 – Weakness”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs        : “Undifferentiated Weakness: ED-Focused Approach and Management”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “A Case of Lower Extremity Weakness and a Recent Neck Wound”, 2017

(pre)-Syncope

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 15 – Syncope”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Syncope: The Latest on Clinical Work-up and Management”, 2015

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.25: Pediatric Syncope and Adult Syncope”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”syncope”, 2011

Practice updates; emDocs: “Pediatric Syncope”, 2014

Dysphagia

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Dysphagia”

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 52 – The Esophagus”, 2016

Coordination difficulties

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Ataxia in the ED Highlights”, 2015

Visual disturbances, including loss of vision and double vision

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 21 – Diplopia”, 2016

Review; Core EM: “Non-Traumatic Monocular Vision Loss”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Visual Loss in the Emergency Department: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Fatigue

Vaginal discharge

Polyuria and oligo/anuria

Vertigo & dizzines

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 19 – Dizziness and Vertigo”, 2016

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Dizziness”, 2011

Practice updates; emDocs: “The Evaluation of the Dizzy Patient”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “A Simplified Approach to the Patient with Dizziness”, 2016

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 41 – Vertigo”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Posterior Circulation Strokes and Dizziness: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Acute Vestibular Syndrome vs Stroke”

3.2.3. Abnormal Vital Signs

Bradypnea

Tachypnea

Practice updates; emDocs: “Approach to Tachypnea in the ED Setting”, 2016

Hypotension

Hypertension

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hypertensive Emergency”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Asymptomatic Hypertension”, 2014

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 72 – Hypertension”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.41: Hypertensive Emergencies”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.40: Asymptomatic Hypertension”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Hypertensive Crisis in Kids”, 2015

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Asymptomatic Hypertension”, 2017

Bradycardia

Practice updates; emDocs: “An Approach to Bradycardia in the Emergency Department”, 2016

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Symptomatic Bradycardia”, 2017

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 63 – Bradycardia”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Selected Toxicologic Bradycardias”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Identifying Complete Heart Block and use of Temporary Cardiac Pacing in ED”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “ECG Pointers: AV Blocks – Part I”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “ECG Pointers: AV Blocks – Part II”, 2018

Tachycardia

GUIDELINES; ESC: “2019 Guidelines on Supraventricular Tachycardia (for the management of patients with)”, 2019

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Simplified Approach to Tachydysrhythmias (Ep.88)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “A Simplified Approach to Tachydysrhythmias review”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Toxicologic Tachycardias”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Tachycardic Arrhythmias in Pregnancy: Management”, 2016

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “WPW”, 2020

Hypothermia

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 140 – Accidental Hypothermia”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Hypothermia, Accidental”

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Death by Hypothermia”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hypothermia”, 2017

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Hypothermia”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Hypothermia and Drowning Pearls”, 2015

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Hypothermia"

Hyperthermia

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hyperthermia”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 141 – Heat Illness”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Hyperthermia”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Febrile infants”, 2011

Review; Core EM: “Environmental Hyperthermia”

Quick Summary; emDocs/Tox Card: “Hyperthermia in the toxicological setting”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Exercise-Induced Emergencies in the Heat: Rhabdomyolysis & Exertional Heat Stroke”, 2017

3.2.4 Bleeding (non-traumatic)

Epistaxis

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Epistaxis”, 2018

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Back to Basics: Epistaxis”, 2018

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Epistaxis”, 2014

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Epistaxis (Ep.89)”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Epistaxis Myths Part I – Do Patients with Epistaxis Managed by Nasal Packing Require Prophylactic Antibiotics?”, 2016

FOAMed updates; emDocs: “The Emergency Department Management of Posterior Epistaxis”, 2016

Hematemesis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 30 – Gastrointestinal Bleeding”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “GI bleed”, 2017

Hemoptysis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 24 – Hemoptysis”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board Review: Hemoptysis”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Hemoptysis: Key principles and management”, 2016

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 33 – Hemoptysis”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Hemoptysis: An EM primer”, 2016

Hematochezia and Melena

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 30 – Gastrointestinal Bleeding”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “GI bleed”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook: “GI Bleeding in Children”, 2017

Hematuria

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hematuria”, 2017

Vaginal bleeding (non-pregnant, during pregnancy, postpartum)

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 34 – Vaginal Bleeding”, 2017

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 70 – Nonpregnant Vaginal Bleeding”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Vaginal Bleeding”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Vaginal Bleeding in the Non-Pregnant Patient”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Massive Vaginal Bleeding”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Bleeding Pregnant Patient in the Third Trimester: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.23: Vaginal Bleeding in Early Pregnancy”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Non-Pregnant Vaginal Bleeding”, 2014

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Anti-D Immunoglobulin (RhoGam) in Early Pregnancy (Ep.86)”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Post-partum Hemorrhage (Ep.33)”, 2016

3.2.5. Abnormal Physical and Mental Status Findings

Diarrhea

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 31 – Diarrhea”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Diarrhea”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Gastroenteritis Mimics: What should the emergency physician consider?”, 2014

Constipation

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 32 – Constipation”, 2017

Cough

Rash (including petechiae, purpurae and urticaria)

Practice updates; emDocs: “What’s that Rash? An approach to dangerous rashes based on morphology”, 2016

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “An Approach to the Unknown Rash”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Drug Rashes: Not always so simple…”, 2016

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 55 – Petechiae & Purpura”, 2016

Review; Peds EM Morsels: “Pediatric Rash”

Practice updates; emDocs: “DRESS: What does the emergency physician need to know?”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS)”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board review: rashes in children”, 2019

Jaundice

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 28 – Jaundice”, 2017

Seizure

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 18 – Seizures”, 2016

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 102 – Seizure”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Treatment of Seizures in ED: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Seizure Mimics”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Seizure Mimics: Pearls & Pitfalls”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Seizures in the First Year of Life”, 2016

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 50 – Seizures”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.73 Emergency Management of Pediatric Seizures”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Seizures”, 2013

Podcast w/ summary ; EM Basic: ”Febrile Seizures”, 2014

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”ED Management of Seizures (Ep.82)”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs/EM Cases: “EM Cases: Emergency Management of Pediatric Seizures”, 2017

Vomiting & nausea

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 29 – Nausea and Vomiting”, 2017

Review; Ped EM Playbook: “Vomiting in the Young Child: Nothing or Nightmare”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy: EM management”, 2016

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board Review: Pediatric Vomiting”, 2017

Cognitive failure

Altered level of consciousness including confusion, depressed level of consciousness and delirium

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 16 – Depressed Consciousness and Coma”, 2016

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 17 – Confusion”, 2016

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 104 – Delirium and Dementia”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Altered Mental Status”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Delirium”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Altered Mental Status (AMS)”, 2011

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Wernicke’s Encephalopathy (Ep.115)”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Dementia, Delirium (Ep.29)”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.2: Excited Delirium”

Practice updates; emDocs: “The Art of the ED Takedown”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook        : “Altered Mental Status in Children”, 2016

Altered mood

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 111 – Mood Disorders”, 2017

Altered behaviour

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 110 – Thought Disorders”, 2017

Agitation and Aggressivity, incl. Delirium

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”FOAMcastini – Undifferentiated Agitation”, 2016

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Dementia, Delirium (Ep.29)”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Ketamine for the Agitated/Violent Patient”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs/Peds EM morsels: “Agitation”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 112 – Anxiety Disorders”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; ERcast: ”Art of the Chemical Takedown”, 2014

Paresis and speech disorder

Ataxia

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Ataxia in the ED Highlights”, 2015

Red eye

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 22 – Red and Painful Eye”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Red Eye”

Wound

3.2.6. Abnormal Blood and Urine Test Results

Acidemia

Alkalemia

Hypoxia

Hypocapnea

Hypercapnea

Anemia & polycythemia???

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 121 – anemia, polycythemia, white blood cell disorders”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Anemia”, 2017

Thrombocytopenia / -cytosis????

Practice updates; emDocs: “Thrombocytopenia: An ED Approach”, 2014

FOAMed updates; emDocs: “Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT): An ED-Focused Review of the Literature”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Thrombocytosis in the ED”, 2017

Leukopenia

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 121 – anemia, polycythemia, white blood cell disorders”, 2017

Leukocytosis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 121 – anemia, polycythemia, white blood cell disorders”, 2017

Hyponatremia

Quick Summary; EM Daily: “HypoNatremia", 2020

Practice updates; emDocs/CORE EM: “Severe Hyponatremia”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Hyponatremia (58)”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.60: Emergency Management of Hyponatremia”

Hypernatremia

Hypokalemia

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Hypokalaemia"

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Hypokalemia”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Hypokalemia”

Hyperkalemia

Review & Practice updates; emDocs: “Updates in Management of Hyperkalemia”, 2017        

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Hyperkalemia”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Hyperkalaemia"

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.86 – Emergency Management of Hyperkalemia”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Hyperkalemia”, 2011

Review; Core EM: “Hyperkalemia”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “ECG Changes of Hyperkalemia”, 2015

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Hyperkalemia part 1”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Hyperkalemia part 2”

Hypocalcemia

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Chvostek’s Sign + Hypocalcemia”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Hypocalcemia”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Hypocalcaemia"

Hypercalcemia

Review; Core EM: “Hypercalcemia”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Hypercalcaemia"

Hypoglycemia

Practice updates; emDocs: “Adult Hypoglycemic Patient: Tips for ED Management”, 2016

Quick Summary; emDocs/Tox Card: “Sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia”, 2017

Hyperglycemia

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 29 – Hyperglycemia”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Mythbuster: Glucose Levels Must be Below a “Safe” Threshold Before Discharge”, 2017

Increased INR

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Supratherapeutic INR”

Elevated liver enzymes

Practice updates; emDocs: “Elevated Liver Enzymes: ED-focused Management Pearls & Pitfalls”, 2016

Increased lactate

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Causes of Elevated Lactate”

Increased creatinine, urea or cystatin C

Elevated CRP or ESR

Elevated Troponin

Practice updates; emDocs: “Elevated Troponin: What else besides ACS could cause troponin elevation?”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Elevated Troponin in the Setting of Supraventricular Tachycardia: Is it Clinically Significant?”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Positive Troponin in CKD/ESRD: Clinical Relevance / Pearls & Pitfalls”, 2015

Hematuria

Proteinuria

Ketonuria

D-dimer

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Age-Adjusted D-dimer: Is it Ready for Prime Time?”, 2015

(NTpro)BNP ?

Practice updates; emDocs: “BNP Level in the ED: Does it Change Management?”, 2016

Thiamine deficiency?

Practice updates; emDocs: “Thiamine Deficiency: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2017

3.2.7. Specific Situations

Intoxication

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Approach to the Poisoned Patient”, 2015

Quick Summary; emDocs/Tox Card: “GI decontamination”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Tox Silent Killers”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Toxidromes by Vital Signs”

Smoke inhalation

Suicidality

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 115 – Suicide”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Suicide Assessment (Ep.28)”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Emergency Department Tips & Tricks for Managing the Suicidal Patient”, 2016

Self-Injury (would call it self-harm)

Transient loss of consciousness (Syncope?)

Trauma to the head and neck

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 41 – Head Injury”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 43 – Spinal Trauma”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 44 – Neck Trauma”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Cervical Spine Distracting Injuries”

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Cervical Spine Rules”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ” C-Spine Injuries (Ep.36)”, 2016

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Neck Trauma: A Practice Update”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Case – Blunt Trauma to the Neck”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook        : “Cervical Collars for C-Spine Trauma: The Facts”, 2016

Facial trauma

Quick Summary + 📺; EMDaily: “Back to Basics: Approach to Facial Trauma”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board Review: Facial Trauma”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 42 – Facial Trauma”, 2017

Crying baby

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Inconsolable Infant”, 2015

Palliative (end of life) care in the ED

Practice updates; emDocs: “Palliative Care in the Emergency Department: A Practical Overview of Why and How”, 2016

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Grand Rounds: Dying in the ED (feat. Ashley Shreves) (Ep.26)”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.70 End of Life Care in Emergency Medicine”

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 42 – End of Life”, 2016

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Palliative Care Screening Tool”

Section 3.3:

SYNDROMES

& DISEASE ENTITIES

3.3.1. Cardiac Arrest

Management of cardiac arrest with shockable rhythm

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”VFib and Pulseless VTach (Ep.62)”, 2017

Management of cardiac arrest with non-shockable rhythm

Practice updates; emDocs: “Beyond ACLS: New PEA Algorithm”, 2015

Identification and initial management of reversible causes

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.96 Beyond ACLS Cardiac Arrest”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Traumatic Cardiac Arrest”, 2015

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “tPA Code Dose”

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Traumatic cardiac arrest”

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Bicarbonate in arrest”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.93 – PALS Guidelines”

Practice updates; emDocs: “The Young Cardiac Arrest Patient”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Beyond ACLS: Cognitively Offloading During a Cardiac Arrest”, 2017

Post-resuscitation care (ROSC)

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Post Cardiac Arrest Care”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.72 ACLS Guidelines 2015 Post Arrest Care”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “I’ve got a pulse – Post-Arrest Care in the Acute Setting”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Cardiac Arrest, Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC) With No ST-Segment Elevation on ECG. Now What?”, 2017

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Return of spontaneous circulation”

3.3.2. Upper airway and throat

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Airway Obstruction”, 2017

Foreign body airway obstruction

Practice updates; emDocs: “Ear, Nose, and Throat Foreign Bodies”, 2016

Anaphylaxis

“GUIDELINE”/”Practice parameter”; J ALLERGY CLIN IMMUNOL: “Anaphylaxis—a 2020 practice parameter update, systematic review, and Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) analysis”, 2020

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Anaphylaxis”

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Anaphylaxis”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 119 – Allergy & Anaphylaxis”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.78 Anaphylaxis and Anaphylactic Shock – from EM Cases Course”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Anaphylaxis Part 1- Diagnosis and Treatment + notes”, 2013

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Anaphylaxis Part 2- Airway”, 2013

Review; Core EM: “Anaphylaxis”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Anaphylaxis (Ep.52)”, 2016

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 12 – Back to Biphasics (Anaphylaxis)”, 2014

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Anaphylaxis and Anaphylactic shock”

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Anaphylaxis”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Anaphylaxis: Where do we go wrong and how can we improve?”, 2016

Angioedema

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Angioedema”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Angioedema (Ep.107)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Angioedema”

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Angioedema”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; ERcast: ”Angioedema”, 2016

Herpes stomatitis

Practice updates; emDocs: “Medical Malpractice Insights: It may be more than “just a sore throat””, 2017

Epiglottitis

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Epiglottitis”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Epiglottitis”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Management of Epiglottitis in the Community Setting”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Adult Epiglottitis Update”, 2013

Pharyngitis and laryngitis

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board Review: Pharyngitis”, 2018

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Streptococcal Pharyngitis”

Tonsillitis

Croup and pseudo-croup

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Croup”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Croup: ED-focused Highlights”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Croup by Stewart Harsant and Taylor Fischer, PA-Cs”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 75 – Upper Respiratory Tract Infections”, 2017

Tracheitis

Thermal damage to the upper airway

Quinsy, in particular retropharyngeal abscess, peritonsillar abscess, Ludwig's angina

Practice updates; emDocs: “More Than a Sore Throat: Evaluation and Management of Retropharyngeal Abscess in the Adult”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/Elemental EM: “Retropharyngeal Abscess”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Peritonsillar Abscess”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Ludwig's Angina”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Medical Malpractice Insights: It may be more than “just a sore throat””, 2017

3.3.3. Lung

Board review 📺; Emergency board review: “Thoracis/Respiratory systems; part 1+2+3”

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 45 – Thoracic Trauma”, 2017

Asthma, in particular status asthmaticus

GUIDELINES; GINA: “2019 GINA MAIN REPORT (guidelines on asthma")”, 2019

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “The Core of Asthma Management”, 2016

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Ac. Asthma Exacerbation”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 73 – Asthma”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Critical Asthma Patient: Pearls/Pitfalls of Management”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “All that wheezes is not asthma” – an evaluation of asthma mimics”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Asthma and COPD (Ep.17)”, 2015

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Ventilation in the Intubated Asthmatic (Ep.42)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Basic Asthma Management”

Review; Core EM: “Life-Threatening Asthma”

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Asthma 2016 BTS guideline”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Pediatric asthma part 1”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”Pediatric asthma part 2”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.79 – Management of Acute Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Mechanical Ventilation for Severe Asthma”, 2015

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Ventilator Setting for Obstructive Lung Disease”

Bronchitis

Bronchiolitis

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Acute Bronchiolitis Management”

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook: “Bronchiolitis”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.59: Bronchiolitis”

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 74 – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “COPD Mimics: What are we missing?”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.24: COPD and Pneumonia”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Ventilator Management in COPD”, 2014

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Calcium-channel blocker toxicity”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”COPD/Shortness of breath”, 2011

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Oxygen in COPD- followup”, 2011

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Antibiotics in COPD Exacerbations (Ep.69)”, 2016

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Asthma and COPD (Ep.17)”, 2015

Review; Core EM: “Supplemental O2 in COPD Exacerbation”

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Is Too Much Supplemental O2 Harmful in COPD Exacerbations?”, 2014

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Ventilator Setting for Obstructive Lung Disease”

Carbon dioxide retention

Pneumonia

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 76 – Pneumonia”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Pneumonia Risk Stratification Tools”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.24: COPD and Pneumonia”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Pneumonia Mimics: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “ED Evaluation of Community-Acquired Pneumonia”, 2017

Empyema

Pulmonary Edema

Review; Core EM: “Acute Pulmonary Edema review”

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 45 – Thoracic Trauma”, 2017

Pneumothorax, in particular tension pneumothorax

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 36 – Pneumothorax”, 2016

Haemothorax

Review; Core EM: “Traumatic Hemothorax”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Managing a Massive Hemothorax: A Guide to Stabilizing Your Patient”, 2016 ???

Pulmonary contusion

Lung abscess

Pleural effusion

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 77 – Pleural Disease”, 2017

Foreign body inhalation

Practice updates; emDocs: “Ear, Nose, and Throat Foreign Bodies”, 2016

Pneumomediastinum ???

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Pneumomediastinum: Critical Care Consult vs. Observation”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Mediastinitis: ED-focused basics”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Pneumomediastinum”, 2017

ARDS

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): who’s at risk and ED-relevant management”, 2017

Pulmonary fibrosis

Practice updates; emDocs: “Interstitial Lung Diseases: Evaluating for an Acute Exacerbation”, 2017

Lung contusion

3.3.4. Heart

Board review 📺; Emergency board review: “Cardiovascular system; part 1+2+3”

Pericarditis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 82 – Pericardial and Myocardial Disease”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Pericarditis”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Pericarditis (Ep.65)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Pericarditis review”

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 54 – The Pericardium”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “ECG Pointers: Pericarditis”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Pericarditis"

Myocarditis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 82 – Pericardial and Myocardial Disease”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Myocarditis"

Cardiac tamponade

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Cardiac Tamponade”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Crashing Patient with Cardiac Tamponade: ED Management”, 2015

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Cardiac Tamponade”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Pericardial effusion / tamponade"

Heart Failure

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 81 – Heart Failure”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “ED Management of Heart Failure: Pearls & Pitfalls”, 2016

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Ac. Pulmonary Edema (Ep.71)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Acute Pulmonary Edema review”

Review; Core EM: “Congestive Heart Failure review”

Review; Core EM: “Cardiogenic Shock review”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Cardiogenic Shock”, 2014

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 7 – Heart Failure”, 2014

Podcast; The Resus room podcast: ”Ac. Heart failure”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Pediatric Cardiogenic Shock”, 2014

Review; LitFL: “Peripartum Cardiomyopathy”

Quick Summary; WikiEM: ”Peripartum cardiomyopathy”

Valvular pathology

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Valvular Emergencies: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs        : “Management of the Crashing Aortic Stenosis Patient”, 2016

Endocarditis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 83 – Infective Endocarditis and Valvular Heart Disease”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Endocarditis”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Infective Endocarditis review”,

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Endocarditis – A Complicated Case”, 2014

Review; Rebel EM: “Bacterial Endocarditis”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Murmurs Needing Echocardiography Evaluation”

Acute Coronary Syndrome-STEMI or (“STEMI, NSTEMI & NAP”)

GUIDELINES; ESC: “Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction Guidelines”, 2018

GUIDELINES; ESC: “Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients Presenting with ST-Segment Elevation (Mangement of)”, 2017

GUIDELINES; ESC: “Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting withOUT persistent ST-segment elevation (Management of) Guidelines”, 2019

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 78 – Acute Coronary Syndromes part A, part B”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”MI and ACS”, 2011

Review; Core EM: “ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in LBBB”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Sick MI Patient [AMI complications]”, 2015

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Importance of Reciprocal Changes in aVL”, 2015

Review; emDocs: “Subtle ECG Findings in ACS: Part III Benign Early Repolarization vs. Ant STEMI”, 2016

Review; emDocs: “Subtle ECG findings in ACS: Part II Hyperacute T-Waves”, 2016

Review; emDocs: “Subtle ECG Findings in ACS: Part I Left Main Coronary Artery Disease”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM        : “Does My Patient with Chest Pain Have Acute Coronary Syndrome?”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Atypical STEMI Patterns and STEMI Equivalents”, 2016

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Acute Coronary Syndrome”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Non-Traditional ACS Risk Factors: A Snake in the Grass”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Atypical ACS Presentations: How Can We Improve?”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “STEMI: anterior, high lateral, inferior, lateral, old, posterior, right ventricular”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Sgarbossa criteria (diagnosing AMI in LBBB)"

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Sgarbossa Criteria for LBBB and AMI”

Acute coronary syndrome-NSTEMI and unstable angina

Practice updates; emDocs: “Current ED Management of Non-ST Segment Elevation MI (NSTEMI): A Practice Update”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “NSTEMI Mimics: A Review of Critical Pitfalls in Diagnosis”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Wellens’ Syndrome”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Left Bundle Branch Block in Myocardial Infarction: An Update”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “To the HEART of the matter”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection”, 2015

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Missed Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Department”, 2015

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Posterior MI Recognition”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs/REBEL EM: “Five ECG Patterns You Must Know”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “ACS Mimics: ED Differential Diagnosis and Approach to Management”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “ECG Pointers: Hyperacute T-Waves”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “ECG Pointers: RBBB in ACS”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “FOAMed Resource Series Part I: The ECG”, 2016

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Wellens Syndrome"

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Back to Basics: ECG Findings in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Identifying the Culprit Vessel”, 2017

Stable angina

DYSRHYTHMIAS

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 79 – Dysrhythmias”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Simplified Approach to Tachydysrhythmias (Ep.88)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “A Simplified Approach to Tachydysrhythmias review”

Sinus Tachycardia

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Sinus tachycardia”, 2017

Atrial fibrillation and flutter

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Atrial fibrillation”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Atrial flutter”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Atrial Fibrillation”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Acute Triggers of Atrial Fibrillation”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulation”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Cardioversion in Recent Onset AF (Ep.98)”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation review”

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation (Ep.64)”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.20: Atrial Fibrillation”

Practice updates; emDocs: “More Atrial Fibrillation Management Pearls in the ED”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Do’s and Don’ts”, 2016

Ectopic atrial tachycardia

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Atrial tachycardia”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Multifocal atrial tachycardia”, 2017

AVNRT and AVRT

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “AVNRT (AV-nodal re-entry tachycardia)”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “AVRT (atrioventricular re-entry tachycardia)”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”AVNRT (Ep.20)”, 2015

Review; Core EM: “Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT) review”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Treatment of Refractory SVT: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Valsalva Maneuver in SVT (Ep.102)”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Adenosine 6-12-12 Approach”

Ventricular tachycardia (VT)

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Ventricular tachycardia: Overview of VT”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “VT versus SVT with aberrancy”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Ventricular Tachycardia review”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia: Approach to Management”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Stable Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Management in the ED”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Ventricular Tachycardia Mimics”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Brugada Criteria for SVT with Aberrancy vs VT”

Torsades de pointes (TdP)

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Torsades de Pointes”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Recurrent Polymorphic VT/Torsades de Pointes”, 2020

Podcast w/ notes; ERcast: ”Torsades De Pointes”, 2015

Atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW)

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “CritCare review: Atrial fibrillation and WPW”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome”, 2017

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Preexcitation”, 2017

Brugada syndrome

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Brugada syndrome”, 2017

Long QT syndrome

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Long QT Syndrome”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Drugs Causing QT Prolongation”

Sick sinus syndrome

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Sinus Node Dysfunction (Sick Sinus Syndrome)”, 2017

Sinus bradycardia

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Sinus bradycardia”, 2017

AV block

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “AV block: 1st degree, 2nd/Mobitz I (Wenckenbach), 2nd/Mobitz II, 2nd “fixed ratio blocks”, 2nd Hi-grade block, 3rd (complete heart block)”

Junctional rhythm

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Junctional ectopic beat / junctional premature beat, Junctional escape rhythm, Junctional tachycardia”

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “CritCare review: Blunt Cardiac Injury”, 2018 ?????

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Blunt Cardiac Injury”

3.3.5. Circulation and Vascular

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 6 – Shock”, 2016

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Hypotensive ED Patient: A Sequential Systematic Approach”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs/PEM Playbook: “Approach to Shock”, 2017

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 48 – Peripheral Vascular Injury”, 2017

Hypovolemic shock

Cardiogenic shock

Obstructive shock

Distributive shock

Podcast w/ notes; ERcast: ”Neurogenic Shock”, 2015

Reflex syncope

Orthostatic syncope

Cardiovascular syncope

Practice updates; emDocs: “Vascular Causes of Syncope”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Predicting Volume Responsiveness in the ED”, 2017

Hypertensive emergencies, including hypertensive crisis, hypertensive encephalopathy

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 84 – Hypertension”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Asymptomatic Hypertension + notes”, 2014

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Hypertensive Emergency”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Asymptomatic Hypertension”, 2017

Arterial insufficiency

Arterial embolisation (incl. ac. limb ischemia)

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 87 – Peripheral Arteriovascular Disease”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Acute Limb Ischemia”

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Ac. Limb Ischemia”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.28: Aortic Dissection, Acute Limb Ischemia and Compartment Syndrome”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Acute Limb Ischemia: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

Aortic dissection

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 85 – Aortic Dissection”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Aortic Dissection”

Review; Core EM: “Aortic Dissection review”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Acute Aortic Dissection”, 2014

Practice updates; emDocs: “Can’t Miss Surgical Emergencies – Part 1 (incl. AoD)”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.92 – Aortic Dissection Live from The EM Cases Course”

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”How to prevent Aortic Dissection f#$%ing you up”, 2016

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Aortic Dissection”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Aortic Dissection Repair Complications: ED presentations, evaluation, and management”, 2017

Carotid artery dissection

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Carotid Artery Dissection”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Carotid Artery Dissection”, 2014

Vasculitis, in particular giant cell arteritis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 118 – Systemic Lupus Erythematosus & Vasculitides”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “EM@3AM: Giant Cell/Temporal Arteritis”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Emergency Medicine Approach to Vasculitides”, 2015

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Can Giant Cell Arteritis Be Ruled Out in the ED?”, 2015

Ruptured / symptomatic aortic aneurysm, in particular abdominal (AAA)

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 86 – Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm”, 2017

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “AAA”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm review”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Clinical Highlights/Updates”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Can’t Miss Surgical Emergencies – Part 1 (inc. AAA)”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Abdominal Vascular Graft Complications”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “US Probe: Ultrasound for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm”, 2017

Deep vein thrombosis

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 88 – PE and Deep Vein Thrombosis”, 2017

Review; Core EM: “Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) review”

Practice updates; emDocs: “DVT Mimics: What should the emergency physician consider?”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “ACCP Guidelines Update for Thromboembolic Disease”, 2016

Pulmonary embolism (PE)

GUIDELINES; ESC: “2019 Guidelines on Acute Pulmonary Embolism (Diagnosis and Management of)”, 2019

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 88 – Pulmonary Embolism and DVT”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.21: Pulmonary Embolism”

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”PE part 1 + notes”, 2014

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Prediction Rules”

Practice updates; emDocs perspective: “Pulmonary embolus in the ED – Which patients require systemic thrombolytics?”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “PE: Management of the Unstable Patient”, 2015

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Hemodynamic support in Acute Right Heart Failure due to Pulmonary Embolism”, 2020

Review; Rebel EM: “Critical Pulmonary Embolism”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Outpatient PE Management: Controversies, Pearls, and Pitfalls”, 2016

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “PESI Score for Pulmonary Embolism”

Quick Summary; ECG review by LitFL: “Pulmonary embolism"

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Pushing tPA in a code situation: what’s the evidence / when can we make the most difference?”, 2016

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”PE Part 2- Risk stratification and treatment + notes”, 2014

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “tPA Code Dose”

Review; Core EM: “Hemodynamically Unstable Pulmonary Embolism”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “PERC Rule: Application and Limitations”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Outpatient PE treatment”, 2014

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “ACCP Guidelines Update for Thromboembolic Disease”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Controversies of Thrombolytics for Pulmonary Embolism”, 2016

Podcast cum Review; ER Cast: ”Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy with Jeff Kline”, 2013

Review; EM Curious: “Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy”, 2014

Thrombophlebitis

Review; Core EM: “Superficial Venous Thrombosis (SVT) review”

Superior vena cava syndrome

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Superior Vena Cava syndrome (SVC syndrome)”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Peripheral Vascular Injury Management”, 2014 ?

Pulmonary hypertension

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “The Crashing Pulmonary Hypertension Patient”, 2015

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries”

3.3.6. Brain

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 8 – Brain Resuscitation”, 2016

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 105 – Brain and Cranial Nerve Disorders ”, 2017

Board review 📺; Emergency board review: “Nervous systems; part 1+2+3”

Stroke

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 101 – Stroke”, 2017

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke”, 2017

Podcast w/ summary; EM Basic: ”Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)”, 2011

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Unusual Stroke Presentations”, 2015

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Stroke and TIA: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Stroke Mimics: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “2013 AHA Guidelines: Contraindications for Thrombolytics”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Posterior Circulation Strokes and Dizziness: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2017

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Acute Vestibular Syndrome vs Stroke”

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “NIH Stroke Scale”

Transient ischemic attack (TIA)

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”TIA part 1”

📺; EM Cases rapid review videos: ”TIA part 2”

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.6: Transient Ischemic Attack”

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Stroke and TIA: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Updates on TIA”, 2016

Practice updates; emDocs: “Current Controversies in TIA Evaluation”, 2016

Osmotic demyelinisation syndrome

Intracranial hemorrhage

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVT)

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis”, 2020

Quick Summary; emDocs/EM@3AM: “Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis”, 2017

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.14 Part 2: Thunderclap Headache – Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Cervical Artery Dissection”

Practice updates; emDocs: “Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016

Cervical artery dissection

Practice updates; emDocs: “Carotid Artery Dissection”, 2014

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.14 Part 2: Thunderclap Headache – Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Cervical Artery Dissection”

Migraine

Podcast cum Review; EM Cases: ”Ep.14 Part 1: Migraine Headache and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage”

Cluster headache

Tension headache

Review [Rosen’s] w/ Podcast & notes; CrackCast: “Chapter 109 – CNS Infections”, 2017

Meningitis

Quick Summary; EMDaily: “Board Review: Meningitis”, 2017

Podcast w/ notes; Core EM: ”Meningitis (Ep.93)”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Meningitis: Clinical Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

Quick Summary/PaucisVerbis cards (ALiEM): “Head CT Before LP for Meningitis”

Quick Summary & Podcast; FOAMcast: ”Episode 64 – Lumbar Puncture and CNS Infections”, 2017

Practice updates; emDOCS Practice updates: “Pediatric Meningitis: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2015

FOAMed updates; emDocs: “Myths in EM: Is Head CT Needed Before LP in all Adults with Suspected Bacterial Meningitis?”, 2017

Encephalitis

Practice updates; emDocs        : “HSV Encephalitis”, 2015

Practice updates; emDocs: “Medical Malpractice Insights: Delayed Diagnosis of Viral Encephalitis”, 2017

Practice updates; emDocs: “Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis: Highlights in Adult Patients”, 2015

Brain metastases

Brain abscess

Practice updates; emDocs: “Brain Abscess: Pearls and Pitfalls”, 2016