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EM Quick Hits 57 – HIV Diagnosis, Failed Paradigm of STEMI Criteria, Poisoned Patient Airway Management, Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis, DIY Investments

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The NICO Trial: NIV in Comatose Patients with Acute Poisoning

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These patients can be at risk of vomiting and aspiration and often prompts clinicians to pursue definitive airway management to avoid pneumonia and other complications. There has been no high level evidence to help guide practice until now…the Non-Invasive Airway Management of Comatose Poisoned Emergency Patients (NICO) trial.

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ToxCard: Tetanus and Strychnine – Expanding the Differential for Severe Muscle Spasm

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Unusual strychnine poisoning and its treatment: report of eight cases. 2022 Annual Report of the National Poison Data System ® (NPDS) from America’s Poison Centers ® : 40th Annual Report. Case report: Survival after deliberate strychnine self-poisoning, with toxicokinetic data. Neurotransmitter. 2015;2:10-14800/nt.

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Ep 124 Burn and Inhalation Injuries: ED Wound Care, Resuscitation and Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Cases

Maria Ivankovic discuss dozens of pearls and pitfalls in the management of both pediatric and adult burn and inhalation injuries management with a special appearance by airway master George Kovacs to talk about awake intubation in the burn and inhalation injuries patient.

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ToxCard: Acute Organophosphate Toxicity

EMDocs

2,7 Organophosphate poisonings in agriculturally-centered communities are of public health concern in developing countries. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. Millions are poisoned, and hundreds of thousands die each year worldwide. Airway management should not be delayed.

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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

ACEP Now

Gotta catch ‘em all!” Now, a randomized, controlled trial clearly demonstrates some patients with low GCS are far more likely to be harmed by an aggressive approach to airway management. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

We had just received a young child from EMS who was post-ictal with decreased mentation. Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. The post Glasgow Coma Scale in Children appeared first on Pediatric EM Morsels. Less than 8, intubate! When is it useful and what does it tell us?