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SGEM #425: Are You Ready for This? Pediatric Readiness of Emergency Departments

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Her research focuses on prehospital care of children with anaphylaxis. […] The post SGEM #425: Are You Ready for This? Her research focuses on prehospital care of children with anaphylaxis. She is nationally known for her work as an EMS researcher and educator.

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ToxCard: Crotalid Envenomation Part 2 – CroFab vs. AnaVip: What’s the Difference?

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1,2 More research is needed to determine whether a difference truly exists in efficacy of these antivenoms against local tissue effects which predominate after Agkistrodon envenomation. Research suggests that F(Ab’) 2 antivenom, compared against F(ab) antivenom, may be associated with lower rates of late and recurrent coagulopathy.

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SGEM #427: I Want a Treatment with a Short Course…for Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Her research interests include improving the diagnosis of urinary tract infections in children. Ellie Hill is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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

RebelEM

antibiotics, NSAIDs) Acute urticaria with angioedema or anaphylaxis provided that urticaria was still present after initial treatment and alleviation of anaphylaxis symptoms. Exclusion: Presented with acute anaphylaxis, and their acute anaphylactic symptoms had not yet been treated. J Allergy Clin Immunol. PMID: 14767453.

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Review of the ATHOS 3 trial

Northwestern EM Blog

Mortality benefit is an extremely elusive goal in critical care research 1 but that doesn’t discount the fact that ATHOS 3 wasn’t designed to demonstrate an improvement in any patient-oriented outcome. In my personal practice, I make sure to optimize these and start vasopressin shortly after the initiation of norepinephrine.

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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Bark with Some Bite

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However, most adverse reactions from willow bark supplements have been associated with people who have aspirin allergies, with numerous cases of anaphylaxis [6]. Phytotherapy Research. Cases of toxicity have been reported following ingestion of supplements as well as ingestion of willow bark tea [4,5]. 2001;57(5):387-391.

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Vasopressor Nonresponse

Northwestern EM Blog

Anaphylaxis Anaphylaxis may present as hypotension alone. Thus, it may easily be confused with a different form of shock and treated with vasopressors such as norepinephrine and vasopressin, which are not first line for anaphylaxis. Critical Care Research and Practice. Urticaria should prompt consideration of anaphylaxis.