Emergency Medicine
- A man with HIV and papules and nodules on the knees
Erythema elevatum diutinum may be confused with Sweet syndrome, Kaposi sarcoma, or bacillary angiomatosis.
- Cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015)
Readers comment on cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015).
- A guide to managing acute liver failure
Transfer to intensive care, start specific treatment depending on the cause, and consider transplant.
- This is not an acute coronary syndrome
Stress cardiomyopathy—broken heart syndrome—typically affects older women exposed to a stressful life event.
- An 85-year-old woman with respiratory failure and positional hypoxemia
Her oxygen saturation was more than 93% when lying down but dropped to less than 85% when she was upright.
- Phrenic nerve paralysis induced by brachial plexus block
The patient developed shortness of breath 1 day after undergoing arthroscopic repair of a rotator cuff.
- Cocaine-induced ecchymotic rash
Levamisole-adulterated cocaine can induce an ANCA-associated vasculitic rash within hours or days.