Clinical Decision-Making Case: Thyroid Storm
Stephanie Cohen, Amrita Vempati, Charles Lei, Hillary Moss, Tiffany Moadel, Suzanne Bentley, Stephanie Stapleton, Kelly Roszczynialski · 2025
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Description
Stephanie Cohen and co-authors present, in a 2025 teaching case, a simulated emergency built around thyroid storm, a rare crisis of thyroid hormone excess. The case is written for emergency physicians in training. Thyroid storm can kill a large share of patients when missed, yet timely aggressive care cuts deaths sharply. Its symptoms are vague, so doctors must reason aloud and act fast.
Learners work through a young woman brought in with altered mental state. They must pull out the key history and exam findings, rank possible diagnoses, and order the right tests. The session then asks them to explain the disease process and lay out treatment and disposition. The authors built the case to match new certification exams that grade spoken clinical reasoning, not just final answers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Stephanie Cohen, Amrita Vempati, Charles Lei, Hillary Moss, Tiffany Moadel, Suzanne Bentley, Stephanie Stapleton, Kelly Roszczynialski |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |