Case Presentation: A female in her late 50’s with past medical history of COPD, fibromyalgia, multiple psychiatric disorders presents to the emergency department with shortness of breath, cough for the past two months, and dyspnea on exertion. She was diagnosed with a COPD exacerbation and treated with Ceftriaxone and Azithromycin as well as systemic steroids […]

Case Presentation: A 24-year-old black male with a history of generalized epilepsy first diagnosed one year ago presented to the Emergency Department (ED) after one episode of a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure. Upon arrival at the ED, he was at his baseline mental state. However, just moments later, he had another refractory generalized tonic-clonic seizure […]

Case Presentation: A 60 year-old female with no significant past medical history was brought in as a level 2 trauma after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. The non-contrast head CT demonstrated bilateral frontal brain lesions, prompting a brain MRI which revealed a non-enhancing T2/FLAIR hyperintense lesion in the anterior frontal lobes and crossing […]

Case Presentation: A 16 year old obese female, with history of menorrhagia and iron deficiency, presented with five days of progressive left hip and thigh pain. The pain was described as sharp and radiating from the left hip to knee.  Hip flexion and ambulation made it worse.  Seven weeks prior, she started an OCP (oral […]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old female with history of a seizure disorder presented with status epilepticus. She had four witnessed seizures with generalized convulsions at home and two more en route to the hospital with EMS, for which she received two doses of 5mg of midazolam. Upon arriving to the ED, she had two to three […]

Case Presentation: A 62‐year‐old right‐handed white man suddenly started crying at work without clear reason. En route to the emergency room (ER), he had multiple intermittent crying spells each lasted for about 5 minutes. On arrival, his blood pressure (BP) was 224/119, he was crying but responsive, and his consciousness was not impaired. There was […]