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Systemic Steroids: An ED Focused Overview

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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.

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

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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. With everything just mentioned considered, DED, in addition to other resuscitative therapies, should still be used for patients in RVF. N Engl J Med.

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