Stroke

Two helpful resources (courtesy of Dr. Michelle Lin @ Academic Life in EM):

• Paucis Verbis card on use of the NIH Stroke Scale
• Paucis Verbis card on contradindications to thrombolytics in stroke

Introduction

Anatomy

Evaluation

Treatment with tPA

Meningitis

Worked example in the Emergency Department

Part 1 – Pathophysiology and Presentations

Part 2 – Treatment and investigations

 

Other resources:

Discussion from EMPEM.org (with photo of petechiael rash in meningococcemia)

How to interpret CSF results from Life in the Fast Lane blog

Anatomy of lumbar puncture by Raeburn Forbes on YouTube

Lumbar puncture by theedexitvideo on YouTube

Seizures (Status Epilepticus)

This is a 12 minute review of the treatment of status epilepticus in the Emergency Department.

One note: there you don’t give Valium IM during status. I don’t know why I wrote that, but it’s wrong. Ignore it.

Here’s a link to the PDF I made during the video.