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Episode 30 - Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery

EB Medicine

Jeff: And while it’s not exactly core EM, we’re going to briefly discuss indications for bariatric surgery, as this is something we don’t often review even in academic training programs. Vitamin D, B12, Calcium, foate, iron, and thiamine deficiencies are all well documented complications. At 6 to 8 mL/kg.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Also consider non-hemorrhagic volume depletion, dehydration : orthostatic vitals may uncover this [see Mendu et al. (3)]. Thus, if there is documented sinus bradycardia, and no suspicion of high grade AV block, at the time of the syncope, this is very useful. Academic Emergency Medicine., Vasovagal syncope is generally benign.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Tumor Lysis Syndrome

Taming the SRU

original document created by author of post. Academic Press; 2014:39-64. paclitaxel, doxorubicin, cisplatin) high-risk monoclonal antibody treatments (i.e. Pictured below is an algorithm created for simpler visualization of diagnosis and treatment of TLS in the emergency department. References 1. Howard SC, Pui CH, Ribeiro RC.