EMDocs

JANUARY 11, 2025

Stercoral colitis in the emergency department: a review of the literature. International journal of emergency medicine, 17(1), 3. Stercoral Colitis in the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Review of Presentation, Management, and Outcomes. Annals of emergency medicine, 82(1), 3746. Stercoral Colitis.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 23, 2023

In most Emergency Departments, staff are allotted little of that scarce resource, time, to begin processing what has just occurred. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ Cunningham T.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

AUGUST 17, 2019

Opioid Use and Misuse Three Months After Emergency Department Visit for Acute Pain. AEM August 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Opioid Use and Misuse Three Months After Emergency Department Visit for Acute Pain.

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RebelEM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

patients that take ACE inhibitors (but 20-30% of all angioedema presentations to the Emergency Department) 3 times more common in Black Americans ( Kostis 2005 ) 0.01 Both conditions can range in severity from benign to life threatening (Wilkerson 2012). Angioedema in the Emergency Department: An Evidence Based Review.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

JULY 24, 2023

Background Although frequent emergency department (ED) users have been widely studied in cross-sectional settings, there is some evidence suggesting that most frequent ED users do not remain frequent users over multiple consecutive years. million ED visits in the baseline year (2012). million patients, who accounted for 4.5

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EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? An implementation science approach improves language access in the emergency department. Association of limited English proficiency and increased emergency department waiting room lengths of stay. Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 13, 2024

Emergency departments (EDs) provide the essential service of evaluating patients with unscheduled, acute, undifferentiated, and decompensated conditions. Dr. Kluesner is an emergency physician in Iowa City, Iowa, at UnityPoint Health-Iowa Methodist Medical Center. 2012): 2470-2478. Academic Emergency Medicine 22.2

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In the UK, as in most developed countries, more patients are presenting to Emergency Departments (EDs) with minor illnesses or injuries. Emergency department overcrowding is a complex issue with multiple contributing factors. A 2011-2012 Australian study by Blake et al. Simpson et al. Simpson et al.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Multimorbidity is likely to impact on care delivery in emergency department(ED) settings due to time-critical decision-making in the context of patient complexity. Aims and Objectives The prevalence of multimorbidity, the presence of two or more long-term conditions (LTCs) is increasing, and it is associated with poor health outcomes.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In October 2022, the American College of Cardiology released an updated expert consensus decision regarding the evaluation of chest pain in the emergency department. This included the addition several new STEMI equivalents [4] on ECG that warrant “prompt evaluation for emergency coronary angiography.” Ann Emerg Med.

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RebelEM

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

RESUS SCENARIO Picture this: you just arrived at your shift at the local emergency department. Oct 2012; PMID: 23043910 Kumar A, et al. For more than just the correctness of terminology, the distensibility index should then be calculated. Youre told they were in respiratory distress, febrile, and borderline hypotensive.

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SheMD

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Yes, I am a woman, yes I am a feminist, yes I am a physician, yes I am in academic leadership for a well-known emergency department… The yes’s are many, but what do I have to say that is so meaningful or useful that people would want to publish it? Sitting down to write this, I cursed myself for volunteering in the first place.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

7-year-old Tilly is brought to your emergency department at 11 p.m. Abdominal pain in children is common, accounting for over 1 in 20 attendances to paediatric emergency departments [1]. Clinical scoring tools have improved diagnostic performance in assessing suspected appendicitis in the emergency department.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2018

Pediatric Hypertensive Emergencies. Pediatric Hypertension in the Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med. 2012; 27:741-751. Blood pressure measurements on children in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia. Open Access Emergency Medicine. 2012; 4:85-92. Pediatrics.

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EMDocs

MAY 26, 2023

2012 Jan;109(3):27-32. Emerg Med Clin North Am. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. Emerg Med Australas. Use and avoidance of seclusion and restraint: consensus statement of the american association for emergency psychiatry project Beta seclusion and restraint workgroup.

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RebelEM

APRIL 29, 2024

World J Emerg Surg 2023 PMID: 36918947 3. Intraosseous vascular access in adults using the EZ-IO in an emergency department. Int J Emerg Med 2009 PMID: 20157465 4. Comparison of intraosseous versus central venous vascular access in adults under resuscitation in the emergency department with inaccessible peripheral veins.

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AENJ: Current Issue

MAY 8, 2024

However, typical NSVT presentation in the emergency department (ED) includes palpitations, near-syncope, dizziness, skipped beats, chest pain, and/or dyspnea (Katritsis et al., NSVT is often asymptomatic depending on its burden percentage.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 14, 2018

Effectiveness of intravenous lidocaine versus intravenous morphine for patients with renal colic in the emergency department. Urology 2012 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Tony Seupaul is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arkansas. A study from Bindman et al.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

2012 Jan;109(3):27-32. Emerg Med Clin North Am. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. Emerg Med Australas. Use and avoidance of seclusion and restraint: consensus statement of the american association for emergency psychiatry project Beta seclusion and restraint workgroup.

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ALiEM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

A 32-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) from an outside hospital for further management of right eye pain and vision loss sustained after he was struck by a metal wire while at work. 2012 Feb;26(2):212-7. American Academy of Ophthalmology. 2023, March 23).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 17, 2024

Curious Ken is brought into your emergency department. Mirza and Sheikh reported perhaps the first unfortunate case in 2012. In 2012, one brand of SAP beads – Water Balz – was recalled by the U.S. 2012 Jan;3(1):6. What are the risks of water beads? Unfortunately, the anastomosis broke down.

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Pediatrics Poisoning Ultrasounds Dehydration 111

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The parents of two-year-old, previously healthy, Jamie bring him to the Emergency Department with coryzal symptoms, wheezing and difficulty breathing. Respiratory viral panel testing did not reduce antibiotic use in the emergency department. doi: 10.1136/eb-2012-100645. SpO2 is 88%. Pediatrics. J Clin Virol.

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ALiEM

MAY 19, 2023

A heavy alcohol drinker, who is well known to your Emergency Department, presents with altered mental status, except that he looks different this time. In our emergency department, the RTs do not spend a lot of time going around measuring cuff pressures and usually save that until the patient reaches the ICU.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2018

2012; 33(7):332-3. Emerg Med Clin North Am. Pediatric Opthalmology in the Emergency Department. [Details in Audio] This post and podcast are dedicated to Henry Goldstein, B.Pharm, MBBS for his tireless dedication to all things #FOAMed, #FOAMped, and #MedEd. You are awesome. Make sure to visit Don't Forget the Bubbles!

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 22, 2024

The campaign started in the United States in 2012, in Canada two years later, and in the United Kingdom in 2016. Choosing Wisely in Paediatric Car e A trainee-led project in a UK tertiary paediatric emergency department looked at the usefulness of blood tests in 101 children. 70% had liver function tests. 47% had a bone profile.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

This month, after a few months of primarily medical topics, we’re talking trauma, specifically Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management. Ann Emerg Med. I’m Jeff Nusbaum, and I’m back with my co-host, Nachi Gupta. TEE should be saved for those in whom a optimal TTE study isn’t feasible. topics.php?paction=showTopic&topic_id=597)

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 8, 2023

John Brown PhD is a Professor of Health Services Research in Ireland who has been studying rural healthcare issues since 2012. There have been many “temporary” rural emergency department closures during the past last year. It was a stepped-wedge reconfiguration of the entire Danish emergency healthcare system.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This case was submitted by… A 12-year-old female was brought to your emergency department by her mother for 1 month of diffuse abdominal and back pain. 2012 Jan;5(1):67-70. This is the first of the four cases. During that initial visit, her physical exam was notable for generalized abdominal tenderness. J Hum Reprod Sci.

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An otherwise healthy 34-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with two weeks of anterior neck pain. 2012 Oct;12(10):808-15. Epub 2012 May 25. Symptoms began with several days of pain in his mandibular molars, progressing to pain and swelling in the neck. References Kuppalli K, Livorsi D, Talati NJ, Osborn M.

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EMDocs

JULY 25, 2024

Literature-based Recommendations for Suicide Assessment in the Emergency Department: A Review. Oct 04, 2012. Assessment of Patients’ Competence to Consent to Treatment. Applebaum PS. N Eng J Med 2007;357:1834-40 3. Ronquillo L et al. Handoffs Pilcher C. Blogpost, June 2013. Medscape, January 08, 2019.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Exploring communication preferences and risk thresholds of clinicians and parents of febrile infants under 90 days presenting to the emergency department: a qualitative study. Wilson K, Umana E, McCleary D, Waterfield T, Woolfall K. Arch Dis Child. 2024 Jul 10:archdischild-2023-326727. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2023-326727.

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Taming the SRU

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for millions of Emergency Department visits annually. While moderate and severe TBI is often managed on an inpatient basis, patients presenting with mild TBI, or concussion, are often managed solely by Emergency physicians. Annals of Emergency Medicine , vol. 5, 2023, pp. 4, 2020, pp.

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PHEM Cast

MARCH 17, 2016

Taken from Weingart & Levitan 2012. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2012; 59(3): 165-175. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Preoxygenation, reoxygenation, and delayed sequence intubation in the Emergency Department. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2014; 65(4): 349-355. Weingart SD.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 10, 2016

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine; 2012 Jun 27;20(1):1–1. The impact of emergency medical services on the ED care of severe sepsis. Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Jan;30(1):51–6. Severe Sepsis in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. 2012 Dec 15;186(12):1264–71. Prehosp Emerg Care.

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EM Curious

JULY 29, 2015

MYTHBUSTING AZITHROMYCIN DOES NOT CAUSE TORSADES OR INCREASE MORTALITY [BLOG]: Since the 2012 NEJM article on azithromycin we have become quite fearful of the potential life threatening cardiac side effects. Download the screencast here.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Emlyn’s blog and podcast since 2012. Case: You are working the afternoon shift in the paediatric emergency department. Your shift is almost over and the department finally seems to be under control. She is a medical education enthusiast and has been an editor and regular contributor to the St.

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RebelEM

AUGUST 30, 2023

New Delhi: JP Brothers Medical Ltd; 2012 Della-Guistina, D. Evaluation and Treatment of Acute Back Pain in the Emergency Department. Orthopedic Emergencies 2015 May; 33(2) 311-26. J Spinal Disord Tech. 2015 Jul;28(6):E316-27 PMID: 26079841 Chowdhury V, Gupta A, Khandelwal N. PMID: 25892724 Gouliouris T, et al.

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