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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Consultation with neurosurgery is essential as these patients need source control in addition to standard antimicrobial therapy for meningitis or encephalitis. Neurosurg Focus. Marmarou et al. J Neurosurg. Nakajima et al.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. Critical care medicine, 33(10), S259-S268 Geoff Jara-Almonte, MD and Hilary Fairbrother, MD // Editor: Alex Koyfman, MD Resuscitation of the Pregnant Trauma Patient – Pearls and Pitfalls www.emdocs.net 2/6/2015 Cabrera, Daniel, M.D.