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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces. Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces.

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SGEM #404: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay-esian Interpretation of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is part of the Don’t Forget the Bubbles team and faculty at Queen Mary […] The post SGEM #404: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay-esian Interpretation of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 1/22/24 (Issue #26)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival.

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Targeted temperature management for post-cardiac arrest is officially over (for now)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival.

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

Broad-spectrum antibiotics (A) for septic shock are not inappropriate given the hyperthermia, tachycardia, and hypotension. Hyperthermia. As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure. What is your diagnosis, and what are your next steps in evaluation and management? 1 Fever is usually < 40C.

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emDOCs Revamp – Acute Chest Syndrome

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2015 May;169(4):492-505. Epub 2015 Mar 30. Intravenous fluid therapy and hospital outcomes for vaso-occlusive episodes in children, adolescents, and young adults with sickle cell disease. -smoke, high ozone levels, smog) Asthma/reactive airway disease (RAD) Diagnostic criteria 7,8 Respiratory symptoms +/- fever (at least 38.0

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Are we on the right TRACT? 

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Some wonder if giving blood to children with a haemoglobin <6g/dl will improve outcomes. Outcomes Primary outcome Mortality at 28 days after randomisation. The authors chose a patient-centred, primary outcome in keeping with their pragmatic design. What were the research questions? The study asked TWO questions: 1.