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Systemic Steroids: An ED Focused Overview

EMDocs

Yoo, MD (Assistant Professor/Core Faculty, San Antonio, TX) // Reviewed by Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case An 18-year-old man with a history of asthma and medication noncompliance presents to the emergency department (ED) with acute onset shortness of breath. He states that he recently moved to Texas from Colorado. Circulation.

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The Pressing Need for Ventilator Ambulance Services

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Ventilator ambulance A ventilator ambulance is an ambulance with portable ventilators and a life support system. Ventilators are used in operating rooms, emergency departments, critical care transport units, and air medical transports.

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

RebelEM

The fragility index of these findings found to be 1 for VC and 9 for DED Obtaining a second defibrillator in the emergency department or intensive care unit can be very easy to do. It’s difficult to definitively say which of the two is statistically better, however there is a trend pointing toward DED.

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