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How To Handle Medical Emergencies: A Guide For Everyone

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Difficulty speaking Sudden speech difficulties, weakness, or numbness could be an emergency medical warning sign of a stroke. Major issues like stroke, internal bleeding, low blood sugar levels, and sudden drops in blood pressure could all accompany this warning sign. These also require emergency medical intervention at the earliest.

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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

E.g. burns, neurosurgery, interventional radiology. Fluid Resuscitation in Trauma In trauma where the cause of shock is most likely to be haemorrhagic, fluid resuscitation should ideally be with blood products – replacing losses. Approximately 20,000 victims in the UK experience strangulation each year.

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Heat-Related Illness

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Heat illness and heat stroke. Hyperthermia. In: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baren JM, Rothrock SG, Brennan JA, Brown L (Eds), Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia 2008. Jardine DS. Pediatr Rev 2007; 28:249.

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Episode 22 - Electrical Injuries in the Emergency Department An Evidence-Based Review

EB Medicine

Nachi: Each year, in the US, approximately 10,000 patients present with electrical burns or shocks. You’re probably familiar with this concept when you see high voltages arcing through the air without direct contact with the actual electrical source, leading to diffuse burns. That’s -- high.

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Adventures in RSI

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Etomidate is perfectly acceptable, but ketamine is actually a superior drug to etomidate in the rapid sequence intubation of children in septic shock. On the other side of the spectrum, permissive hypotension is not described in children, as hypotension is a late and dangerous sign of shock. Relax, it’s a myth.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

However, PCT can be elevated in severe trauma, such as burns or surgery [5,25]. Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021. Notably, PCT is not elevated in noninfectious inflammatory conditions including most rheumatological diseases, gout, SLE, and IBD. Intensive Care Med.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Use soothing sensory measures: speak softly, offer a pacifier, and stroke the skin softly. Pediatric burns should be assessed carefully and treated aggressively. Minor burns can be treated topically and with oral medications. Minor burns can be treated topically and with oral medications. Emerg Med Australas.