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Congestive Heart Failure and Sepsis: A Closer Look at Fluid Management

RebelEM

For those with sepsis, the administration of intravenous fluids (IVF) at the volumes recommended in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) requires careful consideration of an individual’s chronic medical conditions and subsequent sensitivity to IVF. Article: Vaeli Zadeh A, Wong A, Crawford AC, Collado E, Larned JM. Am J Emerg Med.

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ECG Blog #366 — Diltiazem didn't work.

Ken Grauer, MD

Figure-2: I've color-coded P waves from Figure-1 according to P wave morphology ( See text ). NOTE: For clarity — I've color-coded P waves in the long lead II rhythm strip according to morphology. The September 30, 2019 post in Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog — for an example of “MAT”, but without the tachycardia.

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SGEM#246: I Start the Line – But Will It Make a Difference?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: February 22nd, 2019 Reference: Lane et al. Association Between Early Intravenous Fluids Provided by Paramedics and Subsequent In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Sepsis. Date: February 22nd, 2019 Reference: Lane et al. Background: Sepsis is a serious condition with high morbidity and mortality.

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The DIMPLES study

Don't Forget the Bubbles

We have a ringside view in the Children’s Emergency Department – the unique opportunity to see different types of acute presentations, whether DKA, sepsis or asthma, amongst a host of febrile children.

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What are treatment options for this rhythm, when all else fails?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The stay in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) was further complicated by sepsis, delirium, GI bleeding, and anuric renal failure with need for renal replacement therapy. In both tracings — an exceedingly fast PMVT is documented. That said — there is no evidence on ECG of re-occlusion of the infarct artery.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 072 | Cardiorenal syndrome

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Type 5 is the big bucket where they put all the left over disease that cause both kidney and heart failure eg things like amyloid, or sepsis or cirrhosis. This segues relatively nicely into a section of the document on palliative care. Circulation 139, e840–e878 (2019). With me so far? – Mullens, W., Verbrugge, F.

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Post #3 Back-to-Sleep series

Sensible Medicine

This sort of sepsis would produce many of the common autopsy findings. ” Indeed, cause of death is coded differently over time and across counties, states, and countries. Most SIDS babies have congested lungs, and 75% have a history of a recent cold, or an existing cold.

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