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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

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Fluid resuscitation should be initiated. There are few data on the outcomes of UGIB when balloon tamponade is used as a temporizing measure. Outcomes in variceal hemorrhage following the use of a balloon tamponade device. The post Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage appeared first on ACEP Now.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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These guidelines present the best available evidence to support clinical decision making in the prehospital setting when TBI care may have the most significant impact on outcomes; they also establish a research agenda for future investigations. This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007.

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IV fluids in the ED: When do we really need them?

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Sepsis There has been much controversy over the last two decades around the various nuances of volume resuscitation in ED patients with suspected sepsis, much of which goes beyond the scope of this limited review. link] During the 2017 IV fluid shortage, Patino et al. Inwald et al. Choudhari et al.