EMDocs

JANUARY 29, 2024

This article will discuss blood pressure goals and preferred pharmacotherapy for non-traumatic ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Ischemic Strokes: Ischemic stroke is characterized by a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain. The BP targets for patients with ischemic strokes depend on the available therapeutic options.

Stroke 73

Stroke Outcomes EMS Seizures 73

Taming the SRU

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The LP is now a standard procedure and in 2010 well over 135,000 LPs were performed in Emergency Departments throughout the US (3). As may be seen in the table below, there are several themes as well a range of stringency. WHO - Who Needs an LP in the ED? Patients with concern for infection (i.e., Tunkel, A. Hartman, B. Kaplan, S.

Infectious Diseases 95

Infectious Diseases Seizures Ultrasounds Sepsis 95

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over some time and the pain moved into her other arm as well as her jaw. Stroke-volume:50 ml. N Engl J Med [Internet] 2013;368(21):2004–13. Over the course of the next hour, this pain turned into a pressure in her chest. She said this was midsternal and felt like a tightness. This originally radiated into her left arm.

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EKG/ECG Ultrasounds Wellness Stroke 103

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JULY 1, 2016

Lab work can be helpful, as well as US of the hip to look for an effusion, but sometimes, regardless of the results, the joint just has to be tapped to know for sure. If you have any suspicion of the general wellness of the child, get a screening CBC, and perhaps a peripheral blood smear. These children don’t look to well.

Fractures 52

Fractures Poisoning Wellness Sepsis 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

There are increasingly many writings upon the health of our Presidents either factual or speculative, and even in contention whether the office is inherently detrimental to wellness and longevity of its occupants. Spring 2004. Franklin D. This left Harry S. George Washington Eyewitness Account of his Death © 2013. Vadakan, VV.

Stroke 40

Stroke COPD Emergency Nursing Sepsis 40

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

Systematic review showed 85% of studies with substantial reliability with kappa statistic >0.6 PubMed: 29631516] van Heuven AW, Dorhout Mees SM, Algra A, Rinkel GJ. Validation of a prognostic subarachnoid hemorrhage grading scale derived directly from the Glasgow Coma Scale. 2008 Apr;39(4):1347-8. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.498345. 107.498345.

Head Injuries 246

Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Tachycardia, tachypnea, and a change in behavior can be indicators not only to the presence of pain, but possibly to its etiology as well. For children greater than one year who are preverbal, a well performing scale is the FLACC score: Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability ( Table 3 ).

Pediatrics 40

Pediatrics Soft Tissue Injuries Burns Emergency Department 40