ACEP Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine American College of Emergency Physicians

In the February episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss the pediatric asthma and recognition and management of vaccine-preventable illnesses. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including the importance of a thorough family history in Clinical Pediatrics, chronic shoulder dislocation secondary to a seizure disorder in Orthopedics and Trauma, reduction of a distal interphalangeal joint dislocation in The Critical Procedure, preventing post-lumbar puncture headache in the LLSA Literature Review, and knee pain after a fall in The Critical Image.

In the January episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss the consequences of envenomation and acute vision loss. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including persistent dysuria in an adolescent girl in Clinical Pediatrics, an unusual case of osteomyelitis in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, tungsten carbide ring removal in The Critical Procedure, cellullitis and abscess in the emergency department in the LLSA Literature Review, and GI bleeding in The Critical Image.

In the December episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss ABEM continuing certification and the evaluation and management of hemoptysis. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including baking soda intoxication in Clinical Pediatrics, a multiligamentous knee injury in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, cerumen removal in The Critical Procedure, managing opioid use disorder in the LLSA Literature Review, and acute flank pain in The Critical Image.

In the November episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss pediatric head injuries and organisms resistant to antibiotics. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including lung injuries from vaping in Clinical Pediatrics, a high-pressure injection injury in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, anoscopy in The Critical Procedure, shoulder dislocations in the LLSA Literature Review, and a child with periorbital swelling in The Critical Image.

In the October episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss opportunistic infections in patients with HIV and presentations of pelvic inflammatory disease. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including a winged scapula in Clinical Pediatrics, a die-punch fracture of the distal radius in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, manual reduction of paraphimosis in The Critical Procedure, early anticoagulant reversal after trauma in the LLSA Literature Review, and a critically ill patient in The Critical Image.

In the September episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss management of the acutely agitated patient and metabolic acidosis. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including a feared complication of cystic fibrosis in Clinical Pediatrics, Morel-Lavallée lesions in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, phimosis treatment in The Critical Procedure, headache presentations in the emergency department in the LLSA Literature Review, and a cyanotic infant in The Critical Image.