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.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Also used for severe MS, stroke, TBI, chronic pain. 2005; 29: 493–500. Vagus nerve stimulation for partial seizures. Are VNS safe in everyday life? Intrathecal Pumps Used to infuse basal rate of drug, usually baclofen for spasticity, but pump may contain morphine, bupivicaine, clonidine. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure. Both can result in heat exhaustion and heat stroke and have many overlapping symptoms. Patients with heat stroke have hot, dry skin and altered mental status (e.g., C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The previously well child now decompensated: undiagnosed thrombophilia Asymptomatic patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the cause of some cases of cryptogenic vascular disease, such as stroke and MI. Viral myocarditis Presenting with Seizure and Electrocardiographic Findings of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 14-Month-Old Child.

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Pediatrics EKG/ECG Wellness Seizures 52

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

2 Outcomes of patients presenting with ischemic stroke who received MRI as initial imaging modality have demonstrated similar outcomes to those with initial CTA, with Kim et al. Stroke Authors’ Recommendation: CTA head/neck should be acquired in patients with stroke symptoms presenting within 24 hours of symptom onset.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Headache red-flag characteristics include neurological symptoms, thunderclap nature, syncope, trauma, immunocompromised, coagulopathy, fever, rash, seizure, nuchal rigidity, altered mental status, pregnancy, temporal tenderness, jaw claudication, and cancer history. 2005 Jul-Aug 2005;12(4):311-9. Jan 23 2008;(1):CD000396.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

First: Are you sure it was syncope, and not SEIZURE? Conversely , frequently syncope has a short episode of tonic-clonic activity that mimics seizure. Methods: We reviewed the medical records of older adults (age ≥60 years) who presented with syncope or near syncope to one of 3 emergency departments (EDs) between 2002 and 2005.

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