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Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke

Pediatric EM Morsels

Unfortunately, it can cause so many other complications – Sepsis , acute chest syndrome , and hepatopathy. 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.

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EM@3AM: Brainstem Strokes

EMDocs

Answer : Brainstem stroke specifically in the pons resulting in locked in syndrome. CT head without contrast 1 is performed and reveals the following: Question: What is the diagnosis?

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A Beginner’s Guide to Vasoactive Drug use in Children with Septic Shock

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Four-year-old Ed is being resuscitated for presumed Invasive Group A Streptococcal Sepsis from tonsilitis. The amount of blood that comes from the heart with each contraction is the stroke volume (SV). The stroke volume is the difference between how full it is at the start and how full it is after a contraction.

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ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Phenylephrine Pushes & Stroke Volume

PulmCCM

To focus matters, the hemodynamic variable under consideration is the stroke volume [SV]; in other words, how does a push of phenylephrine affect SV? ’ Diminished stroke volume? evaluated phenylephrine in 7 critically-ill patients with ‘hyperdynamic’ sepsis [defined as sepsis with CO above 6.0

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

In contrast, an 2017 Cochrane Review update regarding using PCT to initiate or discontinue antibiotics found PCT-guided therapy had a statistically significant d ecrease in mortality for hospitalized patients by 1.4% (primary endpoint) and a statistically significant decrease in antibiotic exposure by 2.4 2017 Dec 14;9(6):7204-7218.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 4/8/24 (Issue #37)

PulmCCM

In a 2017 observational study at 43 French ICUs , gradual weaning was associated with less airway obstruction and gasping; families reported no greater incidence of PTSD symptoms after witnessing either type of extubation, while nurses reported more work stress with gradual weaning. If no significant structural heart disease (e.g.

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Episode 20 - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake Envenomations

EB Medicine

Both are at the University of Florida Jacksonville, and they reviewed a total of 120 articles from 2006-2017, in addition to reviews from both Cochrane and Dare. Jeff: And to round out this section – just be aware that rare effects such as osteonecrosis, ischemic stroke, massive PE, and septic shock have all been reported.