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SGEM#409: Same as it Ever Was – Tamiflu for Influenza?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

The Cochrane collaboration published analyses of the available data in 1999, 2003 and 2006. Safety issues popped up soon after widespread use of the drug including neuropsychiatric effects as well as the more common adverse effects of nausea and vomiting.

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The resurgence of vaccine preventable infections: Measles and Pertussis

Don't Forget the Bubbles

To meet CDC and WHO diagnostic criteria for pertussis, suspected cases must exhibit a cough lasting at least two weeks, creating a prolonged period during which patients may be infectious before a diagnosis is confirmed. Global measles outbreaks. 2024 Oct 15. Available from: [link] (Accessed 14 Oct 2024) World Health Organization.

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How to prevent central line infections

PulmCCM

A 2006 analysis showed much lower rates of CLABSI with PICC lines, compared to conventional central venous catheters (0.5 Are PICCs Less Infection-Prone than Other Central Lines? Peripherally-inserted central catheters (PICCs) are inserted through the skin into an arm vein, and advanced under ultrasound into large central veins.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Electrocardiography pitfalls and artifacts: the 10 commandments. Critical care nurse , 29 (1), 67-73. The Ten Commandments of Wound Management Ernst, A., Herzog, M., & Seidl, R. Head and Neck Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Thieme. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

Working closely with the CDC, I came to know a lot about rural medicine and how to improve it,” he says, guessing he may have been tapped for the committee through his work as principal investigator on more than $6.1 million in federal grants. Is it working? What needs to change in the future?

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

Jeff: If those figures seem a bit high, another CDC study found that in a general population survey of a quarter million people between 2006-2008, 9% met the criteria for major depression. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006. (US Current depression among adults United States, 2006 and 2008.

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Post #3 Back-to-Sleep series

Sensible Medicine

The CDC reports that in the US in 2020 there were 93 Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths per 100,000 live births (Fig. million babies born in 2020, and the CDC reports there were about 1,389 SIDS deaths. Figure 2 From the CDC Website. Their caption: SOURCE: CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Files.

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