EMDocs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Treatment significantly shortens the duration of illness, and early initiation of therapy can prevent severe complications and reduce the length of hospitalization. 2017 Feb;166:16-24. However, some experts recommend doxycycline even in pregnant patients. pregnant patients). doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.10.018. 2016.10.018.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 19, 2024

This has coincided with a widespread shortage of specialist placements for children facing behavioural, psychiatric, and child protection challenges, leading to an over-reliance on the placement of these children in hospitals. A paediatric social admission is one where a child is admitted to the hospital but not for a medical reason.

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Hospitals Psychiatric Documentation/Coding Pediatrics 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 8, 2023

Evaluation of oseltamivir used to prevent hospitalization in outpatients with influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaminathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital. Date: July 6, 2023 Reference: Hanula R et al. JAMA Int Med 2023. JAMA Int Med 2023.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 19, 2024

References Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service. link] The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. 2017 Sep;49(3):223-226. Epub 2017 May 23. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. Differentials of Paedatric Chest Pain. Sept 5, 2022. Accessed Jul 1, 2023. Chest Pain. Accessed Jul 2, 2023.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Koo is faculty and an emergency physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., Marys Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland. New York, Penguin Books; 2017. They may not recognize the intricacies of the tradition, but they recognize an individual who has found meaning. They celebrate his sense of ikigai.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

JULY 24, 2023

Background Improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) prognosis within the working-age population is important, but no studies have investigated the effects of COVID-19 pandemic specifically on the working-age population with OHCAs. Compared with 2017–2019, home-based OHCAs in 2020 increased (64.8%

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The Lancet Nov 2017. Case: EMS is dispatched to a retirement […] The post SGEM#207: Ahh (Don’t) Push It – Pre-Hospital IV Antibiotics for Sepsis. The Lancet Nov 2017. Clearly something infectious is going on and you wonder if starting antibiotics on route to the hospital would help? The Lancet Nov 2017.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a commonly encountered entity in U.S. emergency departments (EDs), with statistics reporting more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests per year. Incidence and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with shock-resistant ventricular fibrillation: Data from a large population-based cohort.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 28, 2018

December 2017. He has been generally unwell for around one week, with a worsening cough, shortness of breath […] The post SGEM#216: Pump It Up – Corticosteroids for Patients with Pneumonia Admitted to Hospital first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. December 2017. December 2017.

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RebelEM

JANUARY 9, 2024

The use of oral temafloxacin compared with a parenteral cephalosporin in hospitalized patients with pneumonia. Pneumonia 2017. Even better would be to see studies comparing one route to the other. Efficacy and safety of oral and early-switch therapy for community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial. 2001; 111(5):367-74.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

[display_podcast] Date: September 19th, 2017 Reference: Cournoyer et al. Prehospital advanced cardiac life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a cohort study. September 2017. display_podcast] Date: September 19th, 2017 Reference: Cournoyer et al. September 2017. Academic Emergency Medicine.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

1 The availability of these services in the UK expanded in response to a 2017 budget commitment of £100 million to enhance A&E services including the colocation of on-site GP services. 1 The findings are not surprising, as they align with international experience.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 28, 2017

[display_podcast] Date: October 24th, 2017 Reference: Harrison et al. Pediatrics 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anthony Crocco is a Pediatric Emergency Physician and is the Medical Director & Division Head of the Division of Pediatric Emergency at McMaster’s Children’s Hospital. Anthony is also the creator of SketchyEBM.

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ACEP Now

MAY 10, 2024

Stegeman is an Ultrasound Fellow at Alameda Health System / Highland Hospital. Dr. Mikell is an Ultrasound Fellow at Alameda Health System / Highland Hospital. Dr. Martin is the Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Alameda Health System / Highland Hospital. 2017 Dec 22;31:277-284. Surg Technol Int. Ragab, A.R.,

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RebelEM

MAY 27, 2024

What they did: Prospective randomized controlled trial, unblinded, multicenter study Conducted from January 2017 to December 2022 Patients with confirmed PSVT were randomly assigned to receive MVM, IV Adenosine, or combined therapy.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 16, 2017

[display_podcast] Date: July 11th, 2017 Reference: Bookman K et al. AEM July 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. display_podcast] Date: July 11th, 2017 Reference: Bookman K et al. AEM July 2017.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Published 2017 Mar 28. Fludrocortisone Is Associated With a Higher Risk of All-Cause Hospitalizations Compared With Midodrine in Patients With Orthostatic Hypotension. Published 2017 Oct 12. Circulation. 2022;146(25):e483-e557. 7) Gibbison B, López-López JA, Higgins JP, et al. 2017;21(1):78. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019;34(3):389-403.

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ALiEM

JUNE 15, 2023

Elsevier; 2017. PMID 12801736 Author information Sheila Goertemoeller, PharmD, DABAT, ICPS Clinical Toxicologist and Educator Drug and Poison Information Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | The post ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Heart Won’t Go On and On appeared first on ALiEM. Vet Med Sci.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

[display_podcast] Date: September 12th, 2017 Reference: Sinert et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. display_podcast] Date: September 12th, 2017 Reference: Sinert et al.

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Clinical impact: Rather than arguing with the patient about the likelihood of this phenomenon occurring and whether this is a true allergy, the patient is informed that they do not need to immediately start treatment to receive care in the hospital. 2017 Jun;32:660-6. Journal of general internal medicine. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

[display_podcast] Date: November 11th, 2017 Reference: Sundén-Cullberg et al. Critical Care Medicine 2017. Guest Skeptic: Jesse Spurr works as a Nurse Educator in the Emergency Department at Redcliffe Hospital in Australia. display_podcast] Date: November 11th, 2017 Reference: Sundén-Cullberg et al.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 25, 2024

An attorney is consulted and a lawsuit filed against the first two EP’s, the radiologist, and the hospital, claiming that the patient was negligently cared for during the first ED visit. Hospital : The nurse drew a full “rainbow” set of blood tubes. Hughes S, Medscape eMedicine, October 06, 2017. I saw none at the time.

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NIOSH Science Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Background Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, hospital workers have nearly twice the rate of overexertion injuries when compared to the average rate of overexertion injuries for all industries [1]. In 2017, there were about 3 million registered nurses, 0.8 million home health aides and 1.5

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EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

3,4 Notably, institutions receiving federal funding (such as hospitals receiving Medicare reimbursement) must abide by Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which entitles persons with NELP to language assistance. Improving patient safety systems for patients with limited English proficiency: a guide for hospitals. Lion KC, et al.

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RebelEM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sites: Investigators recruited patients at 31 French emergency departments at university and nonuniversity hospitals Duration : June 1, 2009 to March 31, 2015. Funding: The Cardinal Health Laboratory provided Turkel thoracentesis kits to two hospitals Trial Registry: Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01008228. Accessed 12 September 2023.

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PHEM Cast

MARCH 29, 2022

Before you listen to this new podcast, we encourage you to go back and have a listen to Episode 16: Blood which we released in 2017 outlining the available evidence about prehospital blood, and the background to the RePHILL trial.

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PulmCCM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Daily duration of long-term oxygen therapy and risk of hospitalization in oxygen-dependent COPD patients. 2017 Jul 13;7(7):CD004104. 2017 Aug 31;50(2):1602426. 2016 Sep 20;11(9):e0163293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163293. PMID: 27649490; PMCID: PMC5029935. Sundh J, Ahmadi Z, Ekström M. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis.

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PEMBlog

MAY 31, 2023

2017 Sep;40(3):397-410. PMID: 35545394; PMCID: PMC9096567. New A, Tucci VT, Rios J. A Modern-Day Fight Club? The Stabilization and Management of Acutely Agitated Patients in the Emergency Department. Psychiatr Clin North Am. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2017.05.002. 2017.05.002. PMID: 28800797.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

February 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Simon McCormick is an Emergency Medicine Consultant from Northern Ireland who works in Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, England. February 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Simon McCormick is an Emergency Medicine Consultant from Northern Ireland who works in Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, England.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 27, 2023

– Wiles – 2017 – Anaesthesia Blood pressure management in trauma: from feast to famine? The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition Vasopressors in Trauma: A Never Event?

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease before hospital admission: case-control study. Sörensen HT, Nielsen GL, Schönheyder HC, Steffensen FH, Hansen I, Sabroe S, Dahlerup JF, Hamburger H, Olsen J: Outcome of pre-hospital antibiotic treatment of meningococcal disease. 2006 Jun 3;332(7553):1295–8.

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EMDocs

AUGUST 17, 2023

mL/kg/hr for 2 consecutive hours OR Decrease in serum lactate by more than 10% from initial level Primary outcome – Early norepinephrine group vs. the control group demonstrated higher rates of shock control at 6 hours: 76.1% vs 48.4% (OR 3.4,

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In the Illinois case, jail guards responsible for their inmate in a hospital were seemingly inattentive and derelict in their duties, resulting in the prisoner getting loose, stealing the deputy's gun, taking hostages, beatting and raping one nurse until the ordeal was ended by SWAT shooting him and wounding the nurse. September 01, 2017.

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ALiEM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

2017 Mar;78(3 Suppl 2):S28-S31. Author information Ho Tai-Hung, MD Resident Physician Taipei Veterans General Hospital | The post SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Dangerous Cause of Abdominal Pain appeared first on ALiEM. References Chen CE, Shih YC. Ann Plast Surg. doi: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000001001. 0000000000001001. PMID: 28177973.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 20, 2018

BMJ 2017 Guest Skeptic: Meghan Groth is an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. BMJ 2017 Guest Skeptic: Meghan Groth is an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Cook County EM Blog

MAY 1, 2023

The patient had been seen two days earlier at an outside hospital, where he received an aspiration of his right elbow out of concern for septic arthritis, though the aspirated fluid demonstrated no organisms. 2017 Oct;53(4):475-484. 2017 Dec;45(6):781-786. He was thereafter discharged home with oral antibiotics. and ESR 26.

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Ultrasounds Emergency Department Hospitals Outcomes 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

examined 977,907 first-time ED presentations by children aged 0-15 across thirteen acute hospital trusts (between April 2014 and March 2017), trying to figure out how many were non-urgent. looked at “Did Not Wait” cases in a Queensland hospital and found an overall DNW rate of 4.3%. Simpson et al. Gaucher et al.

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