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SAEM Clinical Image Series: Vomiting in the Pediatric Patient
A 2-year-old boy with a past medical history of Hirschsprung disease presents to the emergency department (ED) with vomiting, abdominal distension, and inability to tolerate PO for one day. His...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: I Have a Stomachache
An 18-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with diffuse abdominal pain and multiple episodes of non-bloody, non-bilious vomiting for three days. The patient was seen...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: An Uncommon Cause of Shortness of Breath
A 102-year-old female presents with intermittent epigastric abdominal pain for the last two days. Episodes have no relieving or exacerbating factors. The pain originates in the epigastrium and...
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Ominous Umbilical Lesion
A 54-year-old male with a past medical history of atrial flutter and alcohol use disorder presents with an umbilical wound that has been bothering him for approximately six months. There is no history...
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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Swollen Lips
Photo used with permission The following physical finding would be most consistent with exposure to which of the following? Bee sting Household bleach Isopropyl alcohol Potassium hydroxide Reveal the...
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Trick of Trade: Inflating the Esophageal Balloon of a Blakemore/Minnesota...
A heavy alcohol drinker, who is well known to your Emergency Department, presents with altered mental status, except that he looks different this time. He looks really bad, stating that he has been...
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Dangerous Cause of Abdominal Pain
A 65-year-old male presented with chest and abdominal pain for three weeks. He endorsed a poor appetite and a weight loss of 16 kilograms in the last month. He denied fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and...
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Utility of Bedside Ultrasonography
A 24-year-old G1P0010 female with a PMHx of ovarian cyst (unknown laterality) and emergency contraceptive use 3 months prior presented with sudden onset abdominal pain (upper > lower) that awoke...
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Bulge in the Belly
A 45-year-old male status-post right nephrectomy secondary to a renal mass presented to the emergency department with right-sided flank pain. He endorsed low-grade intermittent right-sided flank pain...
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Ultrasonographic Rabbit Hole
An 86-year-old man with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic kidney disease, COPD, choledocholithiasis requiring ERCP and sphincterotomy 2 years ago...
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