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

ACEP Now

5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021. Postgrad Med.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

2021 Jan 1;32(1):37-43. MI or stroke). One also has to keep in mind that this study occurred at Level 1 trauma centers and may not be applicable in critical access hospitals or lower leveled trauma centers. TXA does not increase the incidence of thromboembolic events such as DVT/PE, stroke, or MI.