Northwestern EM Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, ventilator-dependent days, or rate of renal replacement therapy: these are all things that matter to our patients and to our health systems and they are more fruitful targets when we investigate interventions.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2016

Distributive Shock The most common cause of distributive shock is sepsis, followed by anaphylactic, toxicologic, adrenal, and neurogenic causes. Children with sepsis come in two varieties: warm shock and cold shock. If so, treat the cause – perhaps this is a distributive problem due to anaphylaxis. Treat with epinephrine.

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Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

Trauma/Pre-Hosp Optimal Out-of-Hospital Blood Pressure in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: A Challenge to the Current Understanding of Hypotension Link: [link] Bottom Line: Think about maintaining normotension rather than simply avoiding hypotension in isolated TBI. and NPV(50%).

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EB Medicine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Nachi: Right, but in Australia, not only are the snakes more venomous but the hospital transport distances are much longer, so, basically they sacrifice the limb to potentially save a life. Note that antivenom will NOT reverse anaphylaxis on its own. Regardless, the treatment is the same – epinephrine.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Incidence and analysis of acute transfusion reactions in a hospital-based hemovigilance system at a tertiary care center in Bangladesh.” Blood transfusion complications and associated factors among blood-transfused adult patients at Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: A Cross Sectional Study.” 10, 19 May 2022, p.

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RebelEM

MAY 15, 2024

Antibiotics are effectively the only thing standing between these patients and overwhelming sepsis. High Risk Patients will need hospitalization and IV antibiotics. Improving the immediate management of neutropenic sepsis in the UK: Lessons from a national audit. Neutropenic Fever: Fever (one reading of 38.3C Epub 2017 Nov 22.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

to divert the plane). Lane & Mcdonough Definition of an immediate whole body CT (iWBCT) scan Shortly after patient arrival.

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