Platelets, Who?

A 12-year-old female with no significant past medical history presents with a non-painful, non-pruritic rash…

Emergency Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, PediatricsAmbuj SuriJune 11, 2024pediatric EM, Emergency Medicine, hematologyComment

Dengue in a Recent Caribbean Traveler

A 68-year-old male with history of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with four days of fever, malaise, fatigue, myalgias, arthralgias, nausea, poor appetite, and intermittent, mild headache. He reported extreme generalized weakness…

Don’t Be Tone Deaf—Removal of Aural Foreign Bodies

An otherwise healthy 3-year-old boy presented to the emergency department, accompanied by his father, for concern of aural foreign body. The patient was playing outside near his family’s gravel driveway and the father witnessed him place a pebble in his ear…

ENT, Fast Track, Pediatrics, ProceduresAlexandra PusateriMay 28, 2024pediatric EM, fast track, proceduresComment

Disseminated Zoster in an Immunocompromised Patient

A 72-year-old woman with a history of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), on methotrexate and Upadacitinib, presented to the emergency department with right sided, burning abdominal pain and associated painful, itching rash. She also reported…

Research Study: Late hemotoxicity following North American rattlesnake envenomation

Is crotalidae immune F(ab’)2 (equine) antivenom (Fab2AV) better than crotalidae immune polyvalent Fab (bovine) antivenom (FabAV) in preventing late hemotoxicity in patients who have been bitten and envenomated by rattlesnakes?

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