In the April 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss pediatric seat belt injuries and diabetic foot infections. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including septic shock caused by a perforated appendix in Clinical Pediatrics, chronic cervical myelopathy following a fall in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, stopping intra-oral bleeding post dental extraction in The Critical Procedure, palliative care in The LLSA Literature Review, and sudden-onset leg pain in The Critical Image.

In the March 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss managing abdominal and neck stab wounds and identifying and assisting victims of human sex trafficking. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including pediatric rash post vaccination in Clinical Pediatrics, ultrasound-guided aspiration of a septic prosthetic knee joint in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, removal of magnets from the nares in The Critical Procedure, managing diabetic ketoacidosis in children in The LLSA Literature Review, and pediatric blunt abdominal trauma in The Critical Image.

In the February 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss 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 Critical Cases 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 December 2023 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 2023 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 2023 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 2023 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.

In the August 2023 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss liver disease and syphilis. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including ultrasound of a skin abscess in Clinical Pediatrics, triplane fracture in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, intrauterine device removal in The Critical Procedure, emerging and re-emerging sexually transmitted illnesses in The LLSA Literature Review, and thumb pain after a scuffle in The Critical Image.

In the July 2023 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss deep vein thrombosis and small bowel problems. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including new-onset seizure in Clinical Pediatrics, bilateral patellar tendon rupture in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, emergency needle decompression in The Critical Procedure, outpatient treatment for low-risk pulmonary embolism in The LLSA Literature Review, and urinary retention in a child in The Critical Image.

In the June 2023 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss pericarditis presentations in the emergency department and esophageal emergencies. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including lead reversals in The Critical ECG, Meckel diverticulum in Clinical Pediatrics, trans-scaphoid perilunate and complete radiocarpal dislocations in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, drainage of an acute paronychial abscess in The Critical Procedure, recurrent, low-risk chest pain in The LLSA Literature Review, an elbow injury in a child in The Critical Image, off-label tizanidine use in the Drug Box, and pyrethroid toxicity in the Tox Box.