ACEP Now

MAY 9, 2024

A search for Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) on any social media platform will yield thousands of before-and-after images, faja sales, operating room videos, recovery tips, and patients praising their plastic surgeon. Cosmetic Surgery National Data Bank: 2002 Statistics. These questionable practices led to a rash of bad outcomes. Al Jazeera.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Woodrow Wilson Wilson suffered several strokes, and was isolated in the White House by his second wife, Edith, who allowed only herself and his physician to see him. He survived only four months into his fourth term, dying of a massive hemorrhagic stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he would vacation and do physical therapy.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

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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. 2002 Jan 2;287(1):92-101. The authors recommended against the use of biomarkers or clinical symptoms stand-alone tests to diagnose bacterial pneumonia given the poor test characteristics. Arthritis Rheum.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2 Outcomes of patients presenting with ischemic stroke who received MRI as initial imaging modality have demonstrated similar outcomes to those with initial CTA, with Kim et al. Stroke Authors’ Recommendation: CTA head/neck should be acquired in patients with stroke symptoms presenting within 24 hours of symptom onset.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The previously well child now decompensated: undiagnosed thrombophilia Asymptomatic patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the cause of some cases of cryptogenic vascular disease, such as stroke and MI. Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. 2002; 12:411-413. 2002; 78:27-30. 2002; 17:169-172. Congenit Heart Dis.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Methods: We reviewed the medical records of older adults (age ≥60 years) who presented with syncope or near syncope to one of 3 emergency departments (EDs) between 2002 and 2005. to 1.45) for fatal or nonfatal stroke. g/dL —Hypotension (obviously!) 7) Soteriades ES et al. Incidence and Prognosis of Syncope” NEJM 347(12):878-885, Sept.

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