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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. The tipping point came with the publication of MR. CLEAN in 2015. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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Red Leg in the Heartland of America: A Rural Physician’s Approach to the Patient with a Potential DVT

EMDocs

However, duplex ultrasonography may not be readily available at all times in rural or critical access facilities. Thrombosis J 13, 18 (2015). Accessed September 20, 2023. 2006;295(2):199-207. doi:10.1001/jama.295.2.199 295.2.199 Dybowska, M., Tomkowski, W.Z., link] Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT).

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

2015; 313(16):1636-1644.[ Rosenberg and colleagues took a qualitative approach when investigating barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of ED-initiated buprenorphine programs in critical access hospital EDs across Maine. Articles reviewed 1. D’Onofrio, et al. Rosenberg, et al.

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Consultation with neurosurgery is essential as these patients need source control in addition to standard antimicrobial therapy for meningitis or encephalitis. Lancet Neurol. Marmarou, Young, Aygok. Neurosurg Focus.

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Preface: In January 2015, this blog provided resources for Emergencies of the Third Trimester , however, we did not separately discuss airway management in third trimester pregnancy. In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. Tue, Aug 25, 2015. EMBlog Mayo Clinic.