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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

However, unlike 80 percent of U.S. While ACEP was doing what EPs do best, identifying and caring for the most emergent member needs, ACEP wasn’t doing what the one quarter of U.S. member associations who saw membership growth during this time were doing … continuing membership recruitment efforts.

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SGEM#327: MAGNUM PA – Nebulized Magnesium for Pediatric Asthma

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

You don the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) wondering if this is COVID. For children with severe asthma, IV magnesium has been shown to significantly decrease hospitalization rates though practically these children are rarely sent home after this IV treatment ( Cheuk et al 2005 , Griffith et al 2016 ,

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

EMDocs

IPC for Marburg Virus Disease (MVD): PPE Part 1:PPE Basics What, When, and Why to Use PPE. link] UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley. GuidelinesforHandlingAnimalReservoirsofHantaviruses: RecommendedFieldResearchPracticesforEmployeesoftheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley.; Accessed October 15, 2024. Accessed October 15, 2024.