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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. Background: Management of acute ischemic stroke has been discussed on the SGEM ever since this knowledge translation project was launched in 2012.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Four level-1 US trauma centers participated in the study where the inclusion criteria were trauma patients who were within 2 hours of their injury and were transported to the trauma center from either the field or another hospital. The primary outcome was head injury-related death in-hospital within 28 days of injury.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

After a several week NICU stay for prematurity, the infant has been generally healthy and this is his first trip back to the hospital since discharge. Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. He has a weak cry and you notice bulging fontanelles. Neuroradiology.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

She’s there because your hospital is under-resourced, has injury or illness not thought related to gravidity, is too “sick” to make it to OB Labor/Delivery, or you’re trying to get OR to open. In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. Use of the bougie for intubation.