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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: May 25th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Garreth Debiegun is an emergency physician at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME and clinical assistant professor with Tufts University School of Medicine. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. JAMA 2021 * Zi et al.

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Ethics: Crisis Standards of Care Simulation

AENJ: Current Issue

A simulation-based learning (SBL) experience was designed as a critical access setting where CSC are in place and three diverse, medically complex patients in need of critical care present to the hospital where one critical care bed remains open. 2021), to read in advance. Cardona et al. Cardona et al.,

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Background Recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics reveal that in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died of an overdose, a staggering increase of nearly 30% the prior year. 2021; 4(7): e2117128.[ 2021; 78(3): 434-442.[ The Journal of Rural Health. Pubmed ] 3. Herring, et al.

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SGEM Xtra: From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. Date: October 7th, 2021 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. After graduation they began working at a high-volume, high-acuity critical access hospital. The title of the talk “From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

25 Wesley Barnett had heard disturbing stories about the firm staffing his hometown critical-access ED as he was nearing the end of residency at the University of Kentucky, so he founded an independent physician group to try to take back the contract. Published May 31, 2021. Accessed August 25, 2024. The New Yorker.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Gaddis is a “PGY-37” who has stepped away from full-time employment after a 32-year full-time career in academic emergency medicine, and now works a limited number of shifts in a rural Critical Access hospital in Missouri. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021. Accessed June 10, 2023. Postgrad Med.

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Pigtail Catheter vs Large Bore Chest Tube for Pneumothorax

RebelEM

Advantages of Pigtail Catheter More recent trials found that patients with traumatic pneumothorax and hemothorax managed with PC compared to LBCT experienced less pain ( Kulvatunyou 2021, Kulvatunyou 2014).