Acute aortic dissection is a potentially catastrophic cardiovascular disease, and is a somewhat rare but exceedingly important diagnosis to make. A low-risk, cost-efficient diagnostic test with the ability to reliably exclude this disease would be useful. Is the D-dimer that test?
Purple Urine Bag Syndrome
A not so typical presentation of a common disease process.
Pulmonary Embolism In Pregnancy
Diagnosing a pulmonary embolism in a pregnant patient is a situation that requires clinicians to employ a high index of suspicion. The presentation is complicated by the fact that symptoms commonly associated with PE in the non-pregnant population can be caused by normal physiologic changes of pregnancy.
A Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (or A Tube Through the Nose of a Sick Patient)
When the mouth is off limits, nasal intubation can be a valuable technique for gaining an emergency airway.
- Dr. Rich Levitan
Button Battery Ingestion
According to Poison Control, about 3,300 button battery ingestions occur each year in the United States, with about two thirds of those cases occurring in patients younger than 6 years old.