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ACEP Board Meeting Tackles Current Issues, Practice Trends

ACEP Now

And the Board approved a new clinical policy, “Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the ED with Seizures,” rescinding the 2014 clinical policy with same title.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

S – seizure or shock – most commonly septic, but can be any type: cardiogenic, bstructive, hypovolemic, distributive. 2014; 14:83. This post and podcast are dedicated to Daniel Cabrera, MD for his vision and his leadership in thinking 'outside the box'. Difficult to interpret lactates when a patient is on an epinephrine drip.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

EMDocs

40 The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) released a position statement in 2014 advocating for the use of CTA in place of LP when LP cannot be done or has equivocal results. In EDs where leadership has not taken care to recognize its potential for creating a bottleneck effect, the CTA can cause substantial delays.

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