ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 17, 2021

You don the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) wondering if this is COVID. The PRAM was published in 2000 ( Chalut et al ) and validated in 2008 ( Ducharme et al ). Her usual triggers are upper respiratory infections and cats. A score of 0-3 is considered mild asthma, 4-7 is moderate and 8-12 is severe.

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Pediatrics PPE Emergency Department Hospitals 52

ALiEM

JUNE 5, 2023

ED providers are only exposed in these cases if they have direct contact with drainage from open wounds while not using PPE or there is concern for aerosolization of spores For inhalational anthrax exposure, AVA should be given in combination with antimicrobials (ciprofloxacin or doxycycline) for 60 days. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20(2):e130687.

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Infectious Diseases CDC PPE Military 102

Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2023

Owing to a collaboration with the Wuhan University Medical School, I had visited Wuhan in 2008 and 2017. ” He was masked, I wore full PPE (mask, goggles, gown, gloves, and bonnet). The news out of Wuhan and our experience with SARS and MERS made it clear how bad the pandemic could be.

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Hospitals PPE Urgent Care Academics 95

EB Medicine

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jeff: Alright, so now that the EMS crew, wearing proper PPE of course, has delivered the patient, who is also wearing a mask, to the ED, we can begin our ED H&P. In 2007-2008, an oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 strain emerged globally. Local, state, and federal protocols have been designed for effective care delivery.

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