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Should I Apply Compression Devices To Patients With DVT?

The Trauma Pro

Screening looks at patient factors such as age, obesity, and previous VTE, as well as injury risk factors like spine and pelvic fractures and decreased mobility. But the key fact is that every compression device manufacturer includes existing DVT as a contraindication in their product documentation. Chest 127(5):1631-1636, 2005.

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Medical Student Accommodations

Sensible Medicine

At the same time, I struggle to see how such a person could run codes and work in trauma surgery. There are so many things students are not learning instead — like how to read a paper or how to take care of heart failure (well). The best people who go to medical school are better than the students I trained with (circa 2005-09).

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Fluoroquinolone Use In Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Gatifloxacin use was evaluated in 867 children, which resulted in 12 (1.4%) of children having transient arthritis which resolved within 2 weeks (Pichichero 2005) Ciprofloxacin was compared to Cephalospoin for the treatment of complicated UTI’s in children. None of the patients were documented to have joint disease at follow up.

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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

Creation of an accurate database of emergency physicians living and working within a state, as well as a network of each states’ EM groups and ED medical directors would help chapter leaders disseminate relevant information, strengthen advocacy efforts, and plan regional solutions summits to focus on unique challenges.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Ear Emergencies in the Department

Taming the SRU

B) on right: hand drawn images of layers of ear demonstrating auricular hematoma The epidemiology and incidence of ED presentation for auricular hematomas has not been well-studied because it is a relatively uncommon condition. 2005 Jan;119(1):27-31. Courtesy of wiki commons under CC Attribution 3.0 Emerg Med Clin North Am.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

EMDocs

It’s stressful for the ED clinical staff as well. Boarding of Mentally Ill Patients in Emergency Departments: American Psychiatric Association Resource Document. Prolonged emergency department length of stay for US pediatric mental health visits (2005-2015). Pediatrics. This has a downstream effect. 10.1542/peds.2022-057383

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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

RebelEM

The loss of these cells leads to immunosuppression as well as decreased responsiveness of the immune system as a whole Patients with neutropenia will not only get very sick very quickly, but also will have blunted immune response and may not localize signs of infection well Fever or malaise may be their only presenting symptoms.