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Cetirizine Vs Diphenhydramine For the Treatment of Acute Urticaria in the ED

RebelEM

Background: Diphenhydramine, a first-generation antihistamine, is the most common pharmacologic agent used to treat acute allergic reactions. Health care professional involved in patient management and outcome assessment was completely blinded. Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio. Allergy Asthma Proc. PMID: 17883909.

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Episode 20 - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake Envenomations

EB Medicine

Jeff: Welcome back to Emplify, the podcast corollary to EB Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Practice. I’m Jeff Nusbaum, and I’m back with my co-host, Nachi Gupta and we’ll be taking you through the September 2018 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake envenomations.

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The PALACE Trial: Direct Oral PCN Challenge in Patients with Low-Risk PCN Allergy?

RebelEM

Authors determined they would need to enroll 380 patients (190/group) to achieve a statistical power of 80%, assuming an event rate in the control group of 4% of which neither was achieved however if the control group had a lower prevalence of the outcome (i.e. randomization) as per protocol (i.e. randomization) as per protocol (i.e.

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What the Emergency Clinician Must Know about Remote Monitors in Heart Failure

EMDocs

10 This procedure has well-described rare complications including infection, blood loss, allergic reaction, arrhythmia, pneumothorax if approaching via the internal jugular vein, embolization of the device, and pulmonary artery perforation or dissection. 8 The device itself is 2 x 2.5 Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.120.008693.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

EMDocs

The use of CTA (computed tomography angiography) in the emergency department (ED) has increased dramatically in the past 20 years. 2 Outcomes of patients presenting with ischemic stroke who received MRI as initial imaging modality have demonstrated similar outcomes to those with initial CTA, with Kim et al.

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