Welcome to Emergency Medicine Cases.com. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

For this episode, we're going to do something a little bit different. We did this last year, the highlights of the Whistler Conference.

This is a fantastic conference that's put on by the University of Toronto Divisions of Emergency

Medicine.

It features many of the expert guests that have been on emergency medicine cases before and

also some new faces.

We're going to cover everything from the best literature from 2012 to Fever of Unknown Origin

and much, much more.

So without further ado, get ready for lots of pearls from this year's 2013 Whistler Conference

Update in Emergency Medicine.

Music Whistler Conference, Update in Emergency Medicine.

We're going to kick things off with Dr. Joel Yaffey,

reviewing some of the key literature from 2012,

and he's going to start off with talking about headbleeds after anticoagulation use. There were a pair of articles of the annals of emergency medicine in June 2012,

Volume 59, Issue 6, that talked about patients who are taking clopidigril or warfarin

and bonged their head. So the names of the two articles are management of minor head

injury in patients receiving oral anticoagulation therapy, a prospective study of a 24-hour

observation protocol. And the second one is called immediate and delayed traumatic intracranial

hemorrhage in patients with head trauma and pre-injury warfarin or clopidigril

use. So here goes Dr. Yaffi. This is the first of two papers that were published in the same

issue of the annals of emergency medicine. This was an Italian study that looked at patients with

closed head injuries who are on morphine.

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