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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Lumbar Punctures

Taming the SRU

As may be seen in the table below, there are several themes as well a range of stringency. Find the posterior superior iliac crest and draw an imaginary line across the back (Tuffier’s line) – where this line crosses midline is the L4 spinous process. REFERENCES 1. Zambito Marsala, S., Gioulis, M., & Pistacchi, M.

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The Higher Tech Kid in the ED

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Also used for severe MS, stroke, TBI, chronic pain. Vagus nerve stimulation for partial seizures. 2015; 4, Art. Are VNS safe in everyday life? Intrathecal Pumps Used to infuse basal rate of drug, usually baclofen for spasticity, but pump may contain morphine, bupivicaine, clonidine. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

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Altered Mental Status in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

For altered adults, use AEIOU TIPS (Alcohol-Epilepsy-Insulin-Overdose-Uremia-Trauma-Infection-Psychosis-Stroke). sludge phenomenon, secondary sepsis, hypoglycemia from supply-demand mismatch) S – Seizure (e.g. sludge phenomenon, secondary sepsis, hypoglycemia from supply-demand mismatch) S – Seizure (e.g. 2015; 57(4):659–664.

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.15.23

Taming the SRU

of emergency medicine residents report 1 or more dimensions of burnout (Lin Annals Emerg Med 2019) Moral Injury with COVID “We pushed aside our fear and frustration to focus on saving the patients in front of us; we kept our eyes open, and our feelings closed.

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

Jeff: Medicinally, cannabinoids are currently used in the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, complications of multiple sclerosis and paraplegia, weight loss due to appetite suppression in HIV/aids, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, seizures, and many other neuropsychiatric disorders. times higher risk of stroke or TIA.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The previously well child now decompensated: undiagnosed thrombophilia Asymptomatic patent foramen ovale (PFO) is the cause of some cases of cryptogenic vascular disease, such as stroke and MI. 2015; 19(2):e107-e109. 2015; AID 953826. 2015; AID 905097. However, the presence of PFO alone does not connote higher risk.

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Toxicology Answer: The Capsaicin Found in Hot Peppers and Chilis

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8 Seizures and thunderclap headache from reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome have been reported. 8,9 There is one case of a 17-year-old who died from acute cerebellar stroke after participating in the “One Chip Challenge” (eating a capsaicin infused food chip as a game) that prompted Hershey Co. March 13, 2015.

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