EM Board Bombs @ EMN with Blake Briggs, MD, and Iltifat Husain, MD

Dr. Briggs covers the most common presenting symptoms of a patient with primary tuberculosis. Signs and symptoms of reactivation TB, keys to early diagnosis, and risk factors are discussed.

Drs. Husain and Briggs cover spider bites, including presentation, treatment, and what to do when it escalates to affecting the patient systemically. Management in the high-risk populations (eg, children, the elderly, and pregnant patients) is also covered. (Listen to find out where the black widow spider showed up in the ED!)

D rs. Briggs covers a classic neurosurgical topic, but the diagnosis might fool you. Learn more in this month's podcast .

At long L.A.S.T., D rs. Husain and Briggs delve into local anesthetic toxicity and some classic ways to remember this rare pathology , o nly in this month's podcast .

Can you use the weather to predict a patient's INR levels? News flash: You cannot. Drs. Husain and Briggs talk about tPA and its contraindications, o nly in this month's podcast .

Drs. Husain and Briggs say grab your hot chips, and get ready to film it for TikTok. Hear more about this strange, rare pathology that gets everyone excited, o nly in this month's podcast .

Drs. Husain and Briggs explore the fishiest of presentations. They discuss everything from scombroid poisoning to Vibrio vulnificus . Listen in , o nly in this month's podcast .

Drs. Husain, Briggs, and Marlena Wosiski-Kuhn, MD, PhD, who is the emergency medicine resident at the University of Cincinnati, behind the podcast's social media, discuss classic presentations and fundamentals of bowel obstructions and why plain films and NG tubes are not the answer. Listen in , o nly in this month's podcast .

Dr. Briggs says it may come as a surprise, but whole-body MRIs don't help for temporal arteritis. What's more surprising is that ESR is more helpful than MRI here. What? Listen in as he talks about an uncommon, scary cause of headaches , o nly in this month's podcast .

Drs. Husain and Briggs have all you need to know about treating traumatic bleeding, o nly in this month's podcast .

What if Drs. Briggs and Husain told you that the biggest killer of dialysis patients isn't hyperkalemia? That's exactly what they do, o nly in this month's podcast .

This may come as a surprise, Dr. Briggs says, but whole-body MRIs don't help with temporal arteritis. What's more surprising is that ESR is more helpful than MRI here. An exploration of this uncommon, scary cause of headaches , only in this month's podcast .

It's time for the Super Bowl, that time when folks playing football get a little competitive and break things. Like ribs. Dr. Briggs has some high-yield tips for rib fractures and the most simplified approach you will ever hear for treatment, only in this month's podcast .

Not many things are scarier than a sick child, and pediatric sepsis is at the top of that list. Dr. Briggs discusses tricks of the trade and how not to miss infections in this month's podcast .

Drs. Briggs and Husain tackle the case of patient with a bstract abdominal pain. Her presentation was unreliable, and there was no good diagnostic test, the perfect storm for a tricky diagnosis. They discuss presentation, diagnosis, pitfalls, and management of PID.

What's worse than winter coming? Thyroid storm, of course! Dr. Briggs tackles the most dramatic endocrine problem, its presentation, diagnosis, and, most importantly, the order of medications you give.

TB or not TB? Dr. Briggs and Marlena Wosiski-Kuhn, MD, PhD, say they hope it's not, but either way they note that massive hemoptysis is no fun. They talk in this episode about critical care airway management here, what test you must do in the ED, and how to reduce bleeding .

Long ago, it was called the rich man's plague because the condition was associated with extravagant indulgence of food and drink. Sure, those demographics have changed nowadays, say Drs. Briggs and Husain, but it's a catchy name for a disease still worth discussing .

If you could invent a drug that caused the biggest constellation of bad juju, it would already be invented because it's called a TCA. These are scary overdoses, say Drs. Briggs and Husain as they talk about presentation, diagnoses, and management of TCA toxicity.

Any day talking about sudden sniffing death syndrome is an intriguing day, says Dr. Briggs . He delves into the case of a 22-year-old found unresponsive at a gas station. Two doses of naloxone didn't help, and he was intubated in the ED. What's the diagnosis? And how do you manage these potentially very sick patients?

Drs. Husain and Briggs zero in on the management of PID, which has an unreliable presentation and no good diagnostic test, the perfect storm for a tricky diagnosis.

Dr. Husain, Dr. Briggs, and Marlena Wosiski‐Kuhn, MD, talk about C. difficile , the scary, test-relevant antibiotic-resistant bug that can cause some nasty colitis. (B race yourself for some bad No. 2 jokes.)

Drs. Husain and Briggs come to you from the edge of cliff while they were off camping to bring you a case about a confused, tachycardiac 18-year-old who ate a plant he thought was marijuana. What was it really?

A patient said he was sucker-punched in a bar fight, and he has jaw pain and trismus. Dr. Briggs talks all about facial fractures, which ones need a surgical consult, and why you have to respect the airway.

A patient scratched his leg and has excruciating pain, swelling, and tachycardia. Dr. Briggs says you know it's necrotizing fasciitis, but did you know it has 25 to 35 percent mortality with treatment and limb loss of 16 percent?