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Best Of AAST #7: How Do You Like Your Platelets – Warm Or Cold?

The Trauma Pro

Researchers from the US Army performed a retrospective registry study on a sample of military casualties over four years. I’m surprised that a military registry could only come up with 75 patients a year to analyze. These low numbers and the nature of this particular registry could inject significant bias as well.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Plus, well discuss whether M. We also don’t know whether administration of antibiotics decreases the incidence or severity of associated mucocutaneous disease.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

Between deployments, Dr. McCormick earned his Master of Business Administration from National University and medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets.

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

RebelEM

CRYSTALLOIDS Too much crystalloid resuscitation in traumatic hemorrhagic shock can increase dilutional coagulopathy, as well as increase morbidity and mortality Bickell WH et al. The Role of Whole Blood Transfusions in Civilian Trauma: A Review of Literature in Military and Civilian Trauma. NEJM 1994. [2] Intensive Care Med 2020. [13]

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Highs and Lows

Sensible Medicine

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Well, for what it’s worth, I think it’s excellent. I tend to work well with adversarial, hostile, manipulative, and agitated patients. “No, I’m doing another one.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

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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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.