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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces. Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces.

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What is this ECG finding? Do you understand it before you hear the clinical context?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

These are Osborn waves usually associated with hypothermia. He did well and was discharged. See our other blog posts of hypothermia and Osborn waves -- Massive Osborn Waves of Severe Hypothermia (23.6 Rituparna et al — as well as Chauhan and Brahma ( Int. There is also large T wave inversion and long QT.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 1/22/24 (Issue #26)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival. Read on for details.

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Neurogenic Shock in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

” Children compensate for blood and volume loss very well… until they don’t. Shunting of blood to the extremities results in thermal dysregulation and subsequent hypothermia. McGraw Hill Education; 2019:104-109 Dave S, DAHLSTROM JJ. McGraw Hill Education; 2019:125-138 Ziu E, Mesfin FB. 5 th Edition.

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Targeted temperature management for post-cardiac arrest is officially over (for now)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival. Read on for details.

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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Northwestern EM Blog

There is no gold standard with respect to its definition, and it requires a medication history (which we typically don't do very well in the emergency department). Any life-threatening hyperthermia should be treated immediately with an ice bath.[2] McGraw Hill; 2019. A tricky cause of NMS is the removal of a dopamine agonist.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 103: Thermal Burn Injury

EMDocs

Consider escharotomy if there is any issue with perfusion or neurologic deficit, as well as difficult ventilation in the intubated patient. Severely burned patients have impaired thermoregulation and are at risk of hypothermia. National Burn Repository 2019 Update, Report of data from 2009–2018. link] (2019).

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