Cook County EM Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

2019 Nov 16;8(11):2000. 2000 Jul;45(1):64-6. Vitale E, Ledda C, Adani R, Lando M, Bracci M, Cannizzaro E, Tarallo L, Rapisarda V. Management of High-Pressure Injection Hand Injuries: A Multicentric, Retrospective, Observational Study. J Clin Med. doi: 10.3390/jcm8112000. PMID: 31744068; PMCID: PMC6912633. ISSN 0736-4679. 2022.05.017.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

However, unlike 80 percent of U.S. However, to stay static in today’s world is to fade into irrelevance and our country and our membership needs the voice and presence of emergency medicine.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 29, 2024

Variations in sensitivity are thought to be related to operator technique, patient habitus, and difficulty evaluating the subclavian vein beneath the clavicle. [12] 2000 Dec;45(6):644-6. 13] Ultimately, catheter-based venography is the gold-standard for diagnosis of thrombosis of the upper extremity deep veins. Vasc Endovascular Surg.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2000, as he was completing his second term on ACEP’s Board, he was elected to the IOM – now National Academy of Medicine – in 2000. He then moved to Atlanta, to establish the Emory Center for Injury Control and later served as founding chair of Emory’s Department of Emergency Medicine.

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

First ED-based study to evaluate how operational effects such as crowding can affect patient care in the form of LPV Included ARDS criteria relating to the usage of LPV in the ED allowing evaluation as to whether patients with ARDS were more likely to receive LPV settings. 2000 May 4; PMID: 10793162 Harvey CE, et al. N Engl J Med.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Private equity investment in health care has increased more than 20-fold since 2000, with 70 percent of this activity since 2010. While secrecy surrounds the operations of many PE-owned groups, Envision serves as a case study. Usually, they’ll get two or three every now and then, but if everybody is fresh, who’s teaching who?”

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Farrington] Rebuilding of outdated hospitals put emergency rooms on ground level with nearby X-ray service, and, ideally, sometimes closer to the Blood Bank and the Operating Rooms. We applied to "The Golden Hour" the attitudes and abilities that led to a man on the moon. National Academies. Howard, J. Touchstone, Mike.

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Pediatric Education

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Treatment needs ongoing professional care including professional cleaning which may be extensive and require anesthetic (local and/or operative), treating active infections, and may need dental surgery for treatment of pocket disease and even bone grafting. Periodontology 2000. J Periodontology. 2018;89(Suppl 1: S103-119.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 9, 2015

They may be entrapped; have limited access; may be midway in an operating position that can’t be changed; may need to be sitting due to pulmonary edema, morbid obesity, aspiration prevention or for awake intubation. Most training is likewise done with the patient on a table. Patients in their moment of crisis may not be in such a position!

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. " established that exhaled air was a satisfactory gas for resuscitation. H., & Tang, W.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

This finding was not significantly different among operators with different levels of experience, or between adults and children. 2000 Aug;30(1):17-24. The authors recommended against the use of biomarkers or clinical symptoms stand-alone tests to diagnose bacterial pneumonia given the poor test characteristics. Semin Arthritis Rheum.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. 2000; 35(6):618-622. Summary Acute MI is a challenging presentation in children: Easily missed: uncommon and atypical Varied etiology Respect vague symptoms with a non-reassuring H&P Try to detect it: CATH IT! References Congenital AboulHosn JA et al. Congenit Heart Dis. 2007; 2:2-11.

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EMDocs

JUNE 3, 2023

4 This is the framework the ED resuscitationist should be operating under, as hemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma patients require a different approach compared to stable patients who will undergo CT, routine pelvic fixation, and definitive surgical repair. An x-ray in the trauma bay demonstrated an AP grade III fracture.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Facial grimacing is a weak indicator of pain in neonates ( Liebelt 2000 ). Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. 2000 Aug;106(2 Pt 1):351-7. 2000; 1(4):260-269. Do not expect typical pain behaviors in neonates.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Risk-score performance was measured by comparing the proportions of patients with arrhythmias at various levels of the score and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. 21(11):935-40, 2000 Jun. Copyright 2000 The European Society of Cardiology. __ 11) Colivicchi F et al. 95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.0 95% CI = 1.9

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EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jeff: Perhaps most importantly, no history or physical alone can rule in or out an ectopic pregnancy, for that you’ll need testing and imaging or operative findings. Nachi: And that’s a perfect segue into our next section - diagnostic studies. Jeff: Up first is the urine pregnancy test.

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Broome Docs

APRIL 30, 2024

Video Laryngoscopy vs Direct Laryngoscopy for Endotracheal Intubation in the Operating Room: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. 2000 Jul;39(7):515-8. 2024 Mar 18:e240762. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.0762. PMID: 38497992 Preventing poison ivy? Why is there so much I never knew Stibich AS, Yagan M, Sharma V, Herndon B, Montgomery C.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Prevalence and treatment of pain in EDs in the United States, 2000 to 2010. Pharmacologic therapy should only be utilized for chronic low back pain for patients who have not responded adequately to the aforementioned options. References: Chang HY, Daubresse M, Kruszewski SP, Alexander GC. Am J Emerg Med. May 2014;32(5):421-31.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

The difference in use of statins and aspirin were about 100 (of 2000 per group) patients. One would not expect this bias to be operational for mortality, which was not different between the 2 arms. Comments: In 2018, I offered 5 reasons why I did not think a CT scan alone could shred MI rates by 41%.

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ACEP Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Recent proposals by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to further decrease Medicare reimbursements threaten the financial and operational capacity of emergency medicine. Reimbursement for emergency physician services decreased by 29 percent between 2000 and 2020. For context, Medicare and Medicaid accounted for 54.4

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Diagnosing Jefferson: Evidence of a Condition that Guided His Beliefs, Behavior, and Personal Associations (2000 Future Horizons. President Eisenhower's Operation for Regional Enteritis A Footnote to History. Transfuse George Washington! Transfusion , 42(2), 275-277. Ledgin, Norm. ISBN-10: 1885477600 Leale, Charles A.,

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