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2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More

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It remains to be seen whether higher inspiratory pressures find their way into future trials of ED bilevel positive airway pressure ventilation. Sepsis Robots or Sepsis Humans The proliferation of sepsis alerts in the ED has reached levels best described as obscene. 3 The machine learning model trailed just behind.

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emDOCs Revamp: Esophageal Perforation

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2 Despite advances in imaging and surgical methods, overall mortality approaches 20%, which doubles to 40% with delays to definitive management exceeding than 24 hours. 1 , 4 If presenting later in course or with an intra-abdominal perforation, patients are more likely to show signs of sepsis and hemodynamic instability.

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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

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The Right Way to Airway Video largyngoscopy (VL) is simply, in most situations, the better tool for the job. 7 The operators involved in the trial were mostly emergency medicine residents or critical care fellows, but this fact does not diminish the generalizability of these observations. percent to 38.3 N Engl J Med.

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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

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4 Using factors such as shock, pneumonia, and sepsis this score allows an accurate prediction of developing ARDS. More pertinent and relevant takeaway messages have to do with staffing and operations. Prior studies have used annual census or shift level crowding.