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Issue #2: The Latest in Critical Care, 5/22/23

PulmCCM

More patients (9% vs 4%) had adverse events in the early mobilization group, including 7 serious events in the early-mobilization group (mostly arrhythmias and one stroke) vs 1 in the usual care group. At least one expert questioned whether the study was adequately powered. In an NHLBI-sponsored trial enrolling 1563 patients at 60 U.S.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

EMDocs

Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. Hypervolemia – leads to pulmonary edema: Consider diuresis If euvolemic – start maintenance fluids of D5 in 0.45%NS Infectious: bacterial or viral pneumonia ( M. pneumoniae, C. times maintenance. N Engl J Med.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. This guideline revision is particularly timely as EMS systems have shown their abilities to dramatically improve survival and neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, STEMI, acute stroke, and other time-sensitive conditions.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 101: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 2

EMDocs

Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. If euvolemic – start maintenance fluids of D5 in 0.45%NS National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group [published correction appears in N Engl J Med 2000 Sep 14;343(11):824]. Infectious: bacterial or viral pneumonia ( M.