ALiEM

JUNE 5, 2023

Glucocorticoid therapy should be considered in anthrax meningitis, cutaneous anthrax with extensive tissue edema involving the head and neck, or anthrax with vasopressor-resistant shock [9]. 2011 Dec;1(6):496-501. When should you administer post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)? Anthrax: A disease of biowarfare and public health importance.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

for detecting major injuries Abnormal CXR Rapid deceleration mechanism Presence of a distracting injury Chest wall tenderness Sternal/thoracic spine/scapular tenderness There are limited decision-making rules for thoracic spine imaging Yet a study (Inaba et al., 2015) reported a sensitivity of 98.9%

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RebelEM

JANUARY 29, 2024

in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47 Management of Massive and Submassive Pulmonary Embolism, Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. PMID: 21422387 Wan S et al. Circ 2004.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Clinical features include abdominal or flank pain; ecchymosis to the flank, periumbilical region, proximal thighs, or scrotum; and hemorrhagic shock early in the disease course. Epub 2011 Sep 10. For blunt injury to zone III, an alternative method for hemorrhage control should be pursued (e.g., angioembolization). J Emerg Med.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 21, 2024

The patient in today’s case presented in cardiogenic shock from proximal LAD occlusion, in conjunction with a subtotally stenosed LMCA. LAD — 100% proximal occlusion; with 70-89% mid-vessel narrowing. LCx — 50-69% stenosis of the 1st marginal branch; with 100% distal LCx occlusion. RCA — 100% proximal occlussion.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

AUGUST 1, 2020

Pediatrics 2011; 128:e741. Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and Council on School Health, Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents. Casa DJ et al. The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best-Practices Recommendations. J Athl Train.

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Emergency Medicine Ireland

JUNE 10, 2024

Patients are going to be pretty sick often from multiple pathologies but COHb on its own is enough to produce severe neurological injury, shock and even cardiac injury is also quite prevalent. A follow up trial in 2011 by ICU steroid guru Djilalli Annane did not find a benefit. Intensive Care Medicine 37 , 486–492 (2011).

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Stage 3 (timing variable) Shock 1 : Can occur within hours for massive ingestion, but may occur over a longer time course. 6 Severe toxicity and shock are typically seen with serum iron concentrations above 500 g/dL and serum iron concentrations above 1000 g/dL are associated with significant mortality. McGraw Hill; 2016.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 7, 2018

He is unsuccessfully shocked. published in Resuscitation 2011. You are the first provider on scene with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and start high-quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). A cardiac defibrillator is hooked up and the patient is in ventricular fibrillation.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 9, 2021

CPR is currently in progress with a single shock having been delivered. JAMA 2020 * Population: Adults 18 years and older with non-traumatic OHCA between 2011 and 2015treated by 192 EMS agencies in the USA. On the other end of the line is one of your local crews who have responded to a 54-year-old male with a witnessed cardiac arrest.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

AUGUST 1, 2017

2011; 364(3):255-264. 2011; 29:1136-1140.:205-211. 2011; 523-527. 2011; 24: 552-561. 2011; 146(6):660-665. Necrotizing Enterocolitis. N Eng J Med. Niño DF et al. Necrotizing enterocolitis: new insights into pathogenesis and mechanisms. 2016; 13:590-600. Walsh MC et al. Am J Emerg Med. Chien M et al. J Emerg Med.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 10, 2016

One year mortality of patients treated with an emergency department based early goal directed therapy protocol for severe sepsis and septic shock: a before and after study. Arriving by Emergency Medical Services Improves Time to Treatment Endpoints for Patients With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock. 2011 Aug 30;18(9):934–40.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 6, 2024

The data was collected from a cohort from 2011- 2015 (nearly ten years ago). Criteria for the sepsis scoring systems were not defined explicitly. Data post 30 days was not reviewed, nor was functional health or quality of health outcomes. Is this truly reflective of the current population? Why does it matter?

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Greater Sydney Area HEMS

APRIL 26, 2023

In contrast, shock (leading to syncope and rarely cardiac arrest) from ST can occur well before mechanisms of crush injury come into play, with low-flow states described as early as within 6 minutes (2). . 2011, 22:77-86. Nope they’re different. Organ failure from rhabdo? Health and Safety Executive Research Report 451. 10.1016/j.wem.2010.10.008

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Etomidate is perfectly acceptable, but ketamine is actually a superior drug to etomidate in the rapid sequence intubation of children in septic shock. On the other side of the spectrum, permissive hypotension is not described in children, as hypotension is a late and dangerous sign of shock. Relax, it’s a myth.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JANUARY 26, 2015

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 3(1), 39. Reid, C (2011) Prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy op.cit. Third Trimester Bleeding [ppt] Scott Ramshur, MD Third trimester bleeding [ppt] Tom Archer, MD MBA UCSD Anesthesiology Kinney-Ham, L., Nguyen, H. Steele, R., & Walters, E. de Boisblanc, B., & Suresh, M.

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PHEM Cast

JULY 14, 2016

2011 May;70(5):1282–5. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock. Removing a Patient From the Spine Board: Is the Lift and Slide Safer Than the Log Roll? I J, A M, Yu E, Tulman D, Jones C, Stawicki S. 2014 Feb 11;7(4):251–5. Sundstrøm T, Asbjørnsen H, Habiba S, Sunde GA, Wester K.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

2011 Mar;127(3):e573-80. Epub 2011 Feb 21. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52:e18. Full blown sepsis and toxic shock syndrome. Randomized controlled trial of cephalexin versus clindamycin for uncomplicated pediatric skin infections. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-2053. PMID: 21339275; PMCID: PMC3387913. Pallin, William D.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 28, 2018

Background: There have been a large number of trials on steroids for a variety of conditions in the last year and we have covered some of them on the SGEM: * The ADRENAL trial on steroids in septic shock demonstrating no all-cause mortality benefit at 90 days ( SGEM#208 ).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Authors' commentary: Cardiogenic shock in the setting of severe aortic stenosis. This patient’s severe aortic stenosis (AS) and associated severe cardiogenic shock likely created the ECG pattern, resulting in a very difficult challenge for our inpatient team. Fundamentally, cardiogenic shock is an issue of decreased cardiac output.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. 2011 Jan;3(1):118-27. 2011 Aug;18(8):781-96. 2011 Sep;18(9):1011. In: StatPearls [Internet].

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Mind The Bleep

AUGUST 5, 2023

Complications Short bowel syndrome (following significant resection, and more common following removal of the ileocaecal valve) Intestinal stricture Sepsis / shock DIC Intestinal perforation Mortality (1, 3) References Ginglen JG, Butki N. 2011 Jan 20;364(3):255-64. Necrotizing Enterocolitis. Updated 2022 Aug 8]. N Engl J Med.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

OCTOBER 1, 2016

It is important to note that 15% of necrotizing enterocolitis occurs in full-term babies; malrotation can present simply in shock, without initial overt bleed. Give blood for compensated shock, prepare for massive transfusion if giving more than 40 mL/kg total blood products. 2011 Mar;74(1):45-66. Acta Gastroenterol Belg.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. 2011; 2(1):70-72. 2011 Jan-Jun; 4(1): 81–83. 2011; 32:492-497. 2011; 552-555. 2011; 128(6):1-6 Munk K et al. Arq Bras Cardiol.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MAY 1, 2017

He will be dehydrated – possibly in shock. 2011; 128(4):825-31. 2011; 32(8):341-9. My take away: we now have some evidence basis for using filtered sunlight as an adjunct for babies well enough to go home. Critical Care Although rare, the critically ill neonate with hyperbilirubinemia requires immediate intervention.

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Mind The Bleep

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Circulation Is there evidence of shock – think hypoperfusion; confusion, chest pain, rising lactate, low BP.What is the most likely cause of this? 2011 Dec;11(6):601-4. Breathing Is there evidence of respiratory failure?If If so, what is the most likely cause and the most appropriate means of respiratory support? Clin Med (Lond).

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EMDocs

APRIL 22, 2024

However, as shock resolved and hemodynamic stability improved, RV strain and underfilling of the LV remained apparent 30 minutes after ROSC (Vid 4). 2011 Mar;123(16):1788-1830. A thin wall (diameter <5mm) is suggestive of an acute etiology”. RV pressures > LV pressures. Circulation. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e318214914f.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

They used REBOA for refractory hemorrhagic shock due to either blunt or penetrating injury. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) as an adjunct for hemorrhagic shock. 2011 Dec;71(6):1869-72. Brenner et al. described a case series of 6 patients from two Level I trauma centers. J Pediatr Surg.

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

You can also see when your treatment is working- if you give a patient in septic shock some fluid and improve their CO, you’ll see a rise in ETC02 You can confirm adequacy of respiratory function in the fitting or post-ictal patient when all other methods fail PITFALLS Device failure- lines blocking, batteries running out, pump failure.

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 8, 2023

Circulation 2011; 123: 2213-2218. Many of these “high risks” may be absent from ED medical records or unknown to patients (connective tissue disease, valvular heart disease), are subjective (onset, pain descriptors, and severity) while the interrater reliability of physical examination and subjective historical features is unknown.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s a high-flow artery to the face, and if disrupted, the child may have significant bleeding and possibly hemorrhagic shock. Electrical Injuries: Shocking or Subtle?” 2011; 40(5):598-604. The labial artery is just deep to the burn, and as the eschar sloughs off, it can be exposed. J Emerg Med. 2000;18(2):181-187. Horeczko T.

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Albert 2011, Jabre 2009) However, the existing literature comparing etomidate and ketamine is conflicting. 2/3rds of the population were trauma patients, and more patients in the ketamine arm had shock, hypoxemia, extremes of size, and anatomic challenges, potentially biasing the results to favor etomidate. in the etomidate cohort.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. 2011 Aug;58(2):145-55. You should also consider the possibility of quote unquote spinal shock. than it is spinal shock. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20. PMID: 22237112. Ann Emerg Med.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Follow-Up to This Case: Although I did not learn specific details of this case — I did find out that this patient failed to respond to antiarrhythmic treatment and multiple shock attempts. He could not be resuscitated. — My sincere appreciation to Zhang Mingming ( of China ) for contributing this case.

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

4 Using factors such as shock, pneumonia, and sepsis this score allows an accurate prediction of developing ARDS. 2011 Feb 15; Epub 2010 Aug 27. Patients at risk for ARDS were stratified by the Lung Injury Prevention Score (LIPS) which predicts the probability of developing ARDS and subsequent mortality. PMID: 19325480 Gajic O, et al.

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PulmCCM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Yet in 2011 a landmark randomized, controlled trial measured the effect that an intravenous bolus had on mortality in children with severe febrile illness in 3 African countries. With ANDROMEDA-SHOCK-2 enrolling patients, this distinction could become more salient.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2016

On arrival, he was in compensated shock, with tachycardia. 2011 May;18(5):477-82. A 5-year-old boy was playing with his older brother in front of their home when he was struck by a car. He sustained a femur fracture, splenic laceration, and blunt head trauma – the so-called Waddell’s triad. He decompensates and needs blood.

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