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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

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Fluid resuscitation should be initiated. Stable Patients For both stable and resuscitated patients, high-dose IV proton pump inhibitor therapy (i.e., 14 In clinically stable patients who do not require resuscitation, EGD is less urgent and may be performed within six to 24 hours. 6 Balloon tamponade (i.e.,

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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The GCS should be measured after airway, breathing, and circulation are assessed, after a clear airway is established, and after necessary ventilatory or circulatory resuscitation has been performed. Hypotensive patients should be treated with blood products and/or isotonic fluids in the prehospital setting.

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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. In lower-resource settings, the evidence is stronger against a liberal approach to volume resuscitation. Andrews et al.