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What Causes Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?

Medical Law

According to the CDC, over 400 people die every year from unintentional Carbon monoxide poisoning. CO is produced whenever a material burns. CO is produced whenever a material burns. Anything that burns will give off CO. Fireplaces and wood-burning stoves. It also results in over 20,000 emergency rooms visits.

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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

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The impact of burn-out on emergency physicians and emergency medicine residents: a systematic review. CDC Website.Updated April 28,2023. References Verougstraete D, Hachimi Idrissi S. Acta Clin Belg. 2020;75(1):57-79. Lloyd S, Streiner D, Shannon S. Burnout, depression, life and job satisfaction among Canadian emergency physicians.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Thieme. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. Indian J Burns 2012;20:7-10 Transfusion ten commandments U.K. The Ten Commandments of Wound Management Ernst, A., Herzog, M., & Seidl, R. Head and Neck Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Memon, A., & Kaliff, J.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

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Sasser SM, Hunt RC, Faul M, Sugerman D, Pearson WS, Dulski T, Wald MM, Jurkovich GJ, Newgard CD, Lerner EB; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. MMWR Recomm Rep.

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Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED

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21 Case: A 40-year-old male presents to the ED with a burning epigastric pain that has been worsening over the past week. Pain can be gnawing, aching, burning, and located in the upper abdomen. CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain–United States, 2016. Pain can be improved or exacerbated with meals.

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Six Urban Myths About Smoke-Free Nicotine

Sensible Medicine

The CDC publishes the precise number of deaths attributable to smoking, but does not break out the number of deaths due to use of traditional oral smokeless tobacco. ” This one is a CDC quote , but that harm has only been seen in experimental animal studies. Myth #1: Tobacco/Nicotine is equivalent to smoking.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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57 Emergency clinicians should strongly consider infectious disease (ID) consult or speaking with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for treatment recommendations in cases of newly-diagnosed malaria given that malaria is not endemic in the US. In: CDC Yellow Book 2024. In: CDC Yellow Book 2024. 57 Table 2.