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Targeted Temperature Management in Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Therapeutic hypothermia is thought to decrease the brain’s metabolic demand, reduce inflammation and cell death, and reduce the risk of seizures. About PICSTAR PICSTAR is a trainee-led research network open to all doctors, nurses and allied health trainees within Paediatric Intensive Care. Pediatr Crit Care Med. doi:10.1097/PCC.0000000000001735

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SGEM#440: I’m Gonna Need Someone To Help Me – GRACE4 AUD and CHS Management in the ED

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He has been involved in ED-based clinical research examining ways to improve care for patients with alcohol use disorder in the ED for over two decades. He has had prior hospital admissions for the management of alcohol withdrawal, including seizures and one prior episode of delirium tremens. This is an SGEM HOP but with a twist.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mind The Bleep

music); they may display features of ASD that are not currently used in diagnostic criteria e.g. perfectionism; and there may be a gender bias inherent in diagnostic instruments (due to research focussing on the male phenotype). Hearing and vision assessments should also be carried out in order to address any sensory difficulties.

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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

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. The GCS must be obtained through interaction with the patient (i.e.,

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

Nachi: We’re going to be talking about the pathophysiology of cannabinoids, clinical findings in abuse, best practice management, differences between natural and synthetic cannabinoids, and treatment for cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Synthetics were initially developed in the 1980s largely for research purposes.