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Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke

Pediatric EM Morsels

Impact of the New American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Definition of Stroke on the Results of the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis Trial. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. Epub 2016 Oct 17. 2017 Jan;26(1):108-115. 2016.08.038.

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

Taming the SRU

C., & ESCMID Study Group for Infections of the Brain (ESGIB) (2016). 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. Glennie, L.,

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Blood Pressure Management in Neurologic Emergencies: What Does the Evidence Say?

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This article will discuss blood pressure goals and preferred pharmacotherapy for non-traumatic ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Ischemic Strokes: Ischemic stroke is characterized by a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain. The BP targets for patients with ischemic strokes depend on the available therapeutic options.

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SGEM#199: Therapeutic Hypothermia – What is it Good For?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NEJM Dec 2016 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neal Little is an Emergency Physician who works at Chelsea Hospital in Chelsea, Michigan. NEJM Dec 2016 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neal Little is an Emergency Physician who works at Chelsea Hospital in Chelsea, Michigan. It was a witnessed clonic-tonic seizure that stopped but he did not wake up.

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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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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. 2016; 203:138-140. 2016; 10(6):14-15. 2016; 17:2. However, the presence of PFO alone does not connote higher risk. Cardiol Young.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Less common causes of troponemia are: Kawasaki disease, pediatric stroke, or neuromuscular disease. S – seizure or shock – most commonly septic, but can be any type: cardiogenic, bstructive, hypovolemic, distributive. 2016; 417: 54–56. Don't go looking, if you won't do anything with the test. 2012; 33:1040–1045. Am J Cardiol.