Emergency Medicine Reports (Vol. 39, No. 21) – November 1, 2018

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• recognize specific conditions in patients presenting to the emergency department;
• apply state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to patients with the particular medical problems discussed in the publication;
• discuss the differential diagnosis of the particular medical problems discussed in the publication;
• explain both the likely and rare complications that may be associated with the particular medical problems discussed in the publication.