Administration Documentation/Coding Seizures 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Her husband called EMS when the patient experienced new onset seizures accompanied by micturition. However, cardiac syncope is always a differential diagnosis when someone presents with first time seizures. There are a number of things to look for in an ECG that can hint at arrhythmia as the cause of an apparent seizure.
PEMBlog
MARCH 4, 2025
Patients can get joint pain, you can have a hemolytic anemia due to IgM antibodies causing an autoimmune hemolysis, or even neurological complications such as meningoencephalitis, seizures, transverse myelitis, or even Guillain Barre syndrome. Studies supporting antibiotic treatment of documented mycoplasma pneumoniae in children are limited.
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Taming the SRU
JUNE 3, 2024
Get a blood gas when possible to help guide your ventilation. glenn, haffner, and jackson In Flight Emergencies: As a responding physician to an in-flight emergency, you may recommend diverting the plane, however, the captain (lead pilot) will make the final decision.
EMDocs
JUNE 9, 2023
We’re defining “protocol” here as a written document that provides oversight from the medical director about how to assess and treat patients. These protocols are often developed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders that can include EMS staff and administration, legal counsel, community members, law enforcement.
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 3, 2023
This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. Confounders to the GCS such as seizure and post-ictal phase, ingestions and drug overdose, as well as medications administered in the prehospital setting that impact GCS score should be documented. References Lulla A, et al.
ACEP Now
JUNE 14, 2024
And the Board approved a new clinical policy, “Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the ED with Seizures,” rescinding the 2014 clinical policy with same title. Open applications will be coming soon, but you can find out more and get on the interest list today at acep.org/EDap.
Downeast Emergency Medicine
APRIL 26, 2021
2][3] If earlier treatment with TXA is better, would there be benefit in its administration in the prehospital setting? Association between prehospital tranexamic acid administration and outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury. If so, could this be done safely? These questions are asked in the first paper that we reviewed.
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