Emergency Medicine Cases & Quizzes

• Fast Five Quiz: COPD Maintenance Therapy How familiar are you with maintenance therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, December 04, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: HFrEF How much do you know about the presentation, workup, and treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, December 01, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: Heart Failure Comorbidities How much do you know about comorbidities occurring with heart failure? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, December 01, 2023
• Brain Fog and Anxiety in a 45-Year-Old Woman Who Intermittently Fasts For the past 4-5 months, a 45-year-old woman has had difficulty concentrating, which she describes as "brain fog." She has also experienced daytime anxiety and has been more tired than usual.
  Medscape, November 30, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A 65-Year-Old Man With Racing Heart Rate A 65-year-old man presents with complaints of progressively increasing shortness of breath on moderate exertion, which began approximately 2 weeks earlier, and racing heart rate. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, November 29, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: Prognostic Markers of Heart Failure How familiar are you with prognostic markers of heart failure? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, November 29, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: Heart Failure Management Are you familiar with current heart failure treatment guidelines? Test your knowledge with this short quiz.
  Medscape, November 29, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: Osteoarthritis of the Knee Are you up on recent developments in knee osteoarthritis, including prevalence, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, and surgical approaches? Test yourself with a short quiz.
  Medscape, November 29, 2023
• Should This Pregnant Woman Get the RSV Vaccine? Another child of hers was hospitalized with RSV, and this mother wants to prevent that from happening again.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 28, 2023
• 25-Year-Old With Joint Pain and Lightheadedness A 25-year-old presents with lightheadedness, dyspnea, vague joint aches, and fatigue. Her husband recalls that she had an itchy rash after playing outside with their kids. What's the diagnosis?
  Medscape, November 22, 2023
• Toenail Changes and Suspected Drug Rash A 56-year-old man presents with a rash on his chest and upper arms that has progressed to involve his buttocks, mid-back, and feet. Do you know what's wrong?
  Medscape, November 20, 2023
• ECG Challenge: Heart Racing and Cellulitis A patient with diabetes is admitted for cellulitis, and his heart is racing. What's going on?
  Medscape Cardiology, November 20, 2023
• Dysuria and Discharge After a New Sexual Partner A 21-year-old woman presents with abdominal pain and dysuria. She further states that her urine has been 'dark' over the past day. What's the diagnosis?
  Medscape, November 20, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: HFrEF Treatment Optimization How familiar are you with treatment optimization for HFrEF? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, November 16, 2023
• Fast Five Quiz: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Are you aware of where the current data stand on artificial intelligence in healthcare, and how this might affect your patients? Test yourself with a brief quiz.
  Medscape, November 16, 2023
• Hematologic Complications After Femoral Fracture Surgery During the course of her postoperative hospital stay, a gradual decline in her platelet count is noted.
  Medscape, November 15, 2023
• 28-Year-Old Writer With Bilious Vomiting A 28-year-old woman presents after 14 hours of nonbloody, bilious emesis and cramping along her lower abdomen. She develops watery, nonbloody diarrhea after arrival. What's the diagnosis?
  Medscape, November 13, 2023
• New-Onset Lazy Eye His colleagues have observed that one of his eyes does not move in sync with the other, and that this is a new problem; they are concerned about the potential health implications.
  Medscape, November 03, 2023
• ECG Challenge: C diff Infection With Irregular Pulse While being treated for a C diff infection, a patient with COPD is found to have an irregular pulse. What does his ECG show?
  Medscape Cardiology, November 02, 2023
• A Man With Hypertension and Recent Personality Changes He has had personality changes for approximately 3 weeks, according to his adult son, and has been confused during recent phone calls and occasionally slurs his speech.
  Medscape, October 30, 2023