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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

He appears well and is triaged to an ESI 4. Case 2 19 year old seizure A 19-year-old male is brought into your emergency department via EMS for witnessed seizure-like activity. The seizure abated with rectal diazepam given by the squad. You notice a med-alert bracelet with the patient’s name and the word “SEIZURES.”

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. Confounders to the GCS such as seizure and post-ictal phase, ingestions and drug overdose, as well as medications administered in the prehospital setting that impact GCS score should be documented.

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Unconscious + STEMI criteria: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient had a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure leading to GCS 4. In the resuscitation room, the patient had another seizure that stopped after IV Lorazepam. El-Baba, Dell and McLaren to be intriguing for a series of important concepts that it raises — as well as for a number of equally intriguing unanswered questions.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

This child is at risk for expected complications, as well as overdiagnosis and iatrogenia. These children depend on their preload to run blood passively into the pulmonary circuit; afterload reduction is also important to compensate for a poor left ejection fraction, as well as to avoid the development of pulmonary hypertension.

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Cardiac Rhythms/ECG Module

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A cardiac family history should of course be sought, but think a little outside the box as well. Some families have unexplained deaths during sporting events, an unusual number of car accidents, seizures in someone without a formal diagnosis of epilepsy. On arrival at hospital the child was well with normal observations.

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Emergencies of the Third Trimester

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All went well. HELLP Syndrome [pdf] Sara Paul MD Intrauterine Fetal Demise [ppt] Irene Hwang, MD Obesity in Pregnancy [pdf] Rafael Garabis, MD Seizures in Pregnancy [ppt] Sherifia Heron , MD Substance Abuse in Pregnancy [ppt] Sophia Y. Not in the textbook, but it worked. Episiotomy [ppt] Alice Teich, MD. Perimortem Cesarean Delivery.

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Toxicology Answer: The Capsaicin Found in Hot Peppers and Chilis

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They are found in large numbers in the mouth, throat, and stomach, as well as throughout the body. 8 Seizures and thunderclap headache from reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome have been reported. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; 2007. to recall the product. TRPV1 receptors and signal transduction.

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