RebelEM

JANUARY 29, 2024

in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47 Thrombolysis Compared with Heparin for the Initial Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism: A Meta-Analysis of the Randomized Controlled Trials. PMID: 15262836 Sharifi M et al. Pulseless Electrical Activity in Pulmonary Embolism Treated with Thrombolysis (from the “PEAPETT” Study).

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Perhaps, not insignificantly, they were accustomed to receiving systematized government-supplied medical and trauma care, with "shock rooms" receiving an influx of victims, as contrasted to those later who opposed "socialized medicine." Committee on Shock. EMS in America: The Foundation Documents. Sakran, J.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2016

There are two main reasons for an elevated lactate: the stress state and the shock state. The shock state is due to tissue hypoxia, seen in septic shock. We should use lactate to detect occult shock. Children compensate so well for shock, that subtle tissue hypoxia may not be detected until later. 2016; 417: 54–56.

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RebelEM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

What They Did Single-center randomized controlled study design performed by the Department of Hepatology & Liver transplantation in New Delhi Study participants, investigator clinicians, data collectors, and data analysts were blinded Investigators recruited participants from February 27, 2016 – March 3, 2018.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Tachycardia is unusual in ACS unless there is cardiogenic shock or a second simultaneous pathology. Finally — Note that the S1Q3T3 pattern is missing in ECG #2 , despite documentation of a massive PE. Remember that is the odds ratio comparing all patients without PE to those with PE.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

While it was < 15% in 1990, by 2016 it reached 40%. Vitamin D, B12, Calcium, foate, iron, and thiamine deficiencies are all well documented complications. Consider performing a RUSH exam (that is rapid ultrasound for shock and hypotension) to identify the cause. Jeff: Well that’s kind worrisome. million adults!!

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The best documented cormorbidity is sickle cell disease, although other pro-thrombotic conditions also put the child at risk. The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. 2016; 203:138-140. 2016; 17:2.

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EMDocs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ABG and VBG Correlation The correlation between venous and arterial blood gases is well-documented for standard differences (Table 1), and the data obtained from the VBG can be acted on as if it were an ABG (1, 3-6). Trauma: In the trauma setting, metabolic acidosis often occurs secondary to hypoperfusion from hemorrhagic shock.

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EB Medicine

JUNE 6, 2019

Nachi: For more information on HIV and its management, check out the February 2016 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice , which covered this and more in depth. Nachi: Moving on to blood pressure: frank hypotension should make you immediately think of a ruptured AAA or septic shock 2/2 an intra abd infection. Jeff: As for the lactate.

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RebelEM

MAY 15, 2024

Epub 2016 Dec 29. Coding for Mucositis. Give appropriate fluids, vasopressors, and antibiotics. Default to using whichever score your oncologist is more comfortable with. Application of the MASCC and CISNE Risk-Stratification Scores to Identify Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenic Patients in the Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med.

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Downeast Emergency Medicine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We chose this topic for Journal Club with the goals to raise awareness around these shocking statistics, discuss etiologies behind these high rates of suicide, and to normalize the discussion around physician mental health. All other applications were coded as “not consistent.”

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Thus, Brugada is the likely diagnosis _ A very nice explanation of this is given in the document quoted below on current ECG criteria for Brugada pattern. 2016) in the presence of spontaneous BrS ECG or drug-induced ECG. Heart Rhythm 2016. Bayes de Luna, A et al. The prognostic significance of fever-induced Brugada syndrome.

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EB Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2018

Jeff: There are a shocking 22 million past-month users of marijuana in the US, followed by pain relievers at 3.8 In fact, cannabis use has been documented for medical use dating as far back as 600 BC in West and Central Asia. Marijuana actually maintains the highest lifetime use of an illicit drug used within the US. Subst Abus.

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EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

For a completed abortion, you would expect a closed OS with no IUP on ultrasound with a previously documented IUP. Jeff: It’s worth noting, however, that a 2016 systematic review found no reliable evidence supporting routine screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria, so send a urinalysis and culture only if there is suspicion for a UTI.

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