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What is the Emergency Number of Ambulance

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

108 was decided upon as the National Ambulance Number when the Indian Government established Public-Private Partnerships with companies, longing to create a difference in the emergency medical service of India in 2005. Currently, this is operational in 23 states with 24×7 emergency services.

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Morel-Lavallée Lesion in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Shen 2013, Nickerson 2014, Scolaro 2016 ] Singh et al proposed an algorithm to guide treatment. Shen 2013, Nickerson 2014, Scolaro 2016 ] Singh et al proposed an algorithm to guide treatment.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

EMJ; 2005: 22-24. pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out. Traumatic Cardiac Arrest. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2015. 108(1): 11-16. Wise et al. Hunt et al.

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SGEM #463: Like the Legend of the Phoenix… Criteria for Sepsis

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

The 2005 International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference (IPSCC) criteria were established based on expert consensus and used for diagnosis. For the Phoenix Scoring System, they used the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and for binary criteria, positive predictive value (PPV) and sensitivity.

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Congregation B’nai B’rith 2022 Mitzvah Day Activities

Medical Law

This day of good deeds was initiated in 2005 by a woman in the United Kingdom named Laura Marks who wanted to help people do something beneficial for their communities. Mitzvah Day at CBB in Santa Barbara CBB began celebrating Mitzvah Day in 2005.

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Ultrasound of the Month: No Definitive Yolk Sac, No Definitive IUP!

Taming the SRU

At this point, the patient is taken to the operating room for a diagnostic laparoscopy. She was taken to the operating room and found to have a right tubal ectopic pregnancy with a pseudogestational sac. The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9485, 2005, Pages 583-591, ISSN 0140-6736, [link]. Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol 2018.

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ToxCard: Iron

EMDocs

5 Orogastric lavage may also be considered for GI decontamination but likely to be limited by location, size of tablets, and operator familiarity. 2005 Jun;159(6):557-60. Clinical Toxicology, 2005; 43(6), 553570. 9 Typical dose: Polyethylene glycol (Go-Lytely ) 25 mL/kg/hr in small children and 1.5-2 2 L/hr in adults.