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ToxCard: Chronic Organophosphate Toxicity

EMDocs

Make sure to dispose of clothing appropriately and wear PPE to prevent personal exposure. Limit exposure with PPE if returning to the exposing environment. He was educated on wearing appropriate PPE or avoid his work environment altogether to reduce further low dose, high frequency organophosphate exposure. CorePendium.

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Episode 38 - COVID-19 Update: An Interview with Andrea Duca, MD

EB Medicine

COVID-19 Update 03-18-2020 - An interview with Andrea Duca, MD, Emergency Physician in Bergamo, Italy Time Stamps: 01:29 Dr. Andrea Duca introduction. 14:46 Do you put on new PPE as you go room to room? 15:21 What PPE do you currently use? 15:38 When did you create dirty and clean zones in the emergency department?

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ToxCard: Acute Organophosphate Toxicity

EMDocs

Decontamination and Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) This prevents ongoing exposure to the patient and ED staff. Dispose of clothing appropriately and wear PPE to prevent personal exposure. Parenteral organophosphorus poisoning in a rural emergency department: a case report. Accessed December 14, 2020.

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SGEM#327: MAGNUM PA – Nebulized Magnesium for Pediatric Asthma

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Anthony Crocco is the Deputy Chief – McMaster Department of Pediatrics, Acting Head of Pediatric Cardiology, and creator of Sketchy EBM. JAMA Nov 2020 Case: A four-year-old girl with a known history of asthma presents to your emergency department (ED) after a one-day history of runny nose and cough.

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SGEM#286: Behind the Mask – Does it need to be an N95 mask?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: March 4th, 2020 Reference: Radonovich et al. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Date: March 4th, 2020 Reference: Radonovich et al. Patey and I) are experts on asking questions on the frontline of a Rural Emergency Department to ensure quality, and most importantly, effective patient care.

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Benefit of the Bump: Patient Care as a Pregnant Resident

FEMinEM

I found out I was pregnant in August 2020 which meant that I would spend most of my senior year growing a little human. It gives us a moment to talk about something other than the horrible reason they are in the emergency department that day and allows for an incredibly humanizing moment with my patients.

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Breaking down barriers

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In the emergency department, we were working our way through tonnes of PPE, masks, aprons, and gloves. Amidst tonnes of PPE, hot zones, cold zones, cancelled clinics and social distancing, mental health presentations to the ED were exploding – lockdown was devastatingly affecting our young people. We were in lockdown.

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