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Elbow Dislocations

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2003 Apr;69(2):197-200. AMA Arch Surg. 1957 Dec;75(6):972-5. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1957.01280180104014 1957.01280180104014 PMID: 13478276 Saouti R, Albassir A, Berger JP, Fatemi F, Willems S. Anterior elbow dislocation with recurrent instability. Acta Orthop Belg. PMID: 12769023 Skelley NW, Chamberlain A. Orthopedics. 2015 Jan;38(1):42-4.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

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Emergency Department thoracotomy for the critically injured patient: Objectives, indications, and outcomes. J Am Coll Surg; 2003 (1): 106-111. Emergency thoracotomy in thoracic trauma: a review. Injury; 2006 (37): 1-19. Clay et al. World Journal of Emergency Surgery; 2006: 1:4. Rhee et al. J Am Coll Surg; 2000.

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Annals of B Pod: Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens

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Variations in sensitivity are thought to be related to operator technique, patient habitus, and difficulty evaluating the subclavian vein beneath the clavicle. [12] 2003 Jun;123(6):1953-6. Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens in the Upper Extremity: A Case Report and Systematic Review and Outcomes Analysis. 2003 Jul;4(3):146-52.

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ToxCard: Iron

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2 This requirement was ultimately removed in 2003, however iron related exposures and deaths have stayed low. 7 Workup other than serum iron concentration at 4 hours after ingestion not shown to accurately predict clinical outcomes or severity of toxicity. 6 Absence of visualized tablets on x-ray does not exclude iron ingestion.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

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Significantly elevated CRP (>122mg/L) and PCT (>0.5ng/mL) levels are predictors of bad outcomes, and are useful for tracking therapy progress, but are not specific enough to rule-in infectious endocarditis [38-39]. 2003 Jun;111(12):1805-12. 2003 Jul;112(2):299. 2003 Jun;111(12):1805-12. 2003 Jul;112(2):299.

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Sickle Cell Disease Module

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Furthermore, educating both patients and their families is important in order to achieve good treatment compliance and better clinical outcomes. Afro-Caribbean patients should be screened for sickle cell before anaesthesia for possible pre-operative transfusion. 2003; 5: 229–240. What could be the differential diagnosis?

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Episode 20: End Tidal Carbon Dioxide

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trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19). Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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