Today, I review, link to, and excerpt from Emergency Medicine Cases‘ “EM Quick Hits 70 MedMal Cases Upper Back Pain, Traumatic Pneumothorax/Hemothorax Decision Making, Risk Stratification of ICH for Consultation, Post-Circumcision Bleeds, IV Contrast Allergy, Emotional Contagion“.*
*Helman, Petrosoniak, A. Morgenstern, J. Tagg, A. Rosenberg, H. Hendin, A. Seregren, S. EM Quick Hits 70 – MedMal Case Upper Back Pain, Traumatic Pneumothorax/Hemothorax Decision Making, Risk Stratification of ICH for Consultation, Post-Circumcision Bleeds, IV Contrast Allergy, Emotional Contagion. Emergency Medicine Cases. January, 2026. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/em-quick-hits-70-jan-2026/. Accessed February 3, 2026.
All that follows is from the above resource.
Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Mike Weinstock on medmal cases: upper back pain (1:29)
Any patient with pain above the waist: Think of Acute Coronary Syndrome, Pulmonary Embolus, and Dissection of the Aorta
Andrew Petrosoniak on traumatic pneumothorax and hemothorax decision making (27:55)
Justin Morgenstern on brain injury guidelines: risk stratification for neurosurgical consult, imaging and admission (38:23)
Andrew Tagg on management of post-circumcision bleeding (47:32)
Hans Rosenberg & Ariel Hendin on evaluation and management of CT contrast allergy (50:30)
Shawn Segeren on emotional contagion in resuscitation teams (59:30)
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