Ep 224 Vertigo Part 1: Approach to Episodic Vertigo

Vertigo is one of the most dreaded chief complaints in Emergency Medicine – for good reason! Symptoms can be vague, the assessment can be nuanced, and there are so many potential pitfalls along the way for accurately investigating and diagnosing dizzy patients. What do we actually need to know about risk stratifying these patients at the bedside? What red flags are most helpful to screen for? How do we tease out the useful parts of the history and physical exam to guide our diagnostic strategy? In this Vertigo Part 1 episode, Katie is joined by emergency physicians and vertigo gurus Dr. Peter Johns and Dr. Elisha Targonsky to outline a practical 4-step approach to assessing patients with EPISODIC vertigo and key clinical pearls to make your next vertigo assessment so much easier. Stay tuned for the upcoming paired Vertigo Part 2 episode that will cover an approach to continuous vertigo… If you find EM Cases content helpful for your practice, please consider contributing a donation to help us continue producing free, high-quality, and open-access emergency medicine educational content here: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

ECG Cases 45 ECG in Weakness and Neurological Symptoms

In this ECG Cases blog Dr. Jesse MacLaren guides us through 10 cases of patients who present with generalized weakness or acute neurologic symptoms and discusses how to look for ECG signs of dysrhythmias, electrolyte emergencies, acute coronary occlusion, and demand ischemia in patients with generalized weakness and in patients with neurologic symptoms, to consider predisposing factors like LVH; seizure-like activity from cardiac syncope; TIA/CVA embolic sources like atrial fibrillation or LV thrombus; or cardiac complications like stress-induced cardiomyopathy...

Episode 34: Geriatric Emergency Medicine

In this episode Dr. Don Melady, Canada's leading educator in Geriatric Emergency Medicine (Geri-EM) & Dr. Jaques Lee, one of Canada's leading researchers in Geri-EM, discuss the common yet challenging Geriatric Emergencies: a practical approach to geriatric Delirium, best practice for managing agitation and pain in the older patient, management of recurrent falls, pearls in the assessment of the 'Weak & Dizzy' geriatric patient, atypical presentations of common life threatening emergencies including ACS and surgical abdomen, key drug interactions in the geriatric patient and more..

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