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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

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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An Analysis of Racism in Health Care

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While these discriminatory and brutal acts were shocking, they were not surprising to Black people. Kendall is the chief of clinician engagement at US Acute Care Solutions and has 15 years of emergency department leadership experience. London;Picador:2016. Racism lives among us. References Ray Jr. Georgetown Medical Review.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

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in 2016, is a more succinct evaluation for LVO that has been shown to be as sensitive and more specific than the NIHSS. However, IgE-mediated or not, anaphylactic shock is possible in either case. Stroke 2016, 47 (1), 273-281. 8 The VAN (vision, aphasia, neglect) score ( Figure 1 ), first proposed by Teleb et al. 115.009171. (13)

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