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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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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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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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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

8 Additionally, military branches have skilled workers with complementary skills where an existing workforce could be immediately deployed to meet these needs. military facilities. What’s clear from the emerging data: our experience as clinicians as well as our patients’ is that the system is unraveling. Accessed July 13, 2023.

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We stand open and ready … (Whoever you are … )

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Dolan, LA Times] Administrators often insist that the hospital be a “weapons-free” zone (as if there was any protection in that), that guards are often unarmed –perhaps with just a radio and a flashlight, and often wearing a “friendly” blazer rather than a uniform of obvious authority. Dolan, Maura.