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Chung – Environmental Injuries: Burns, Electrical, Altitude, Heat Stroke

University of Maryland CC Project

Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences presents on Environmental Injuries including burns, electrical, altitude and heat stroke. Dr. Kevin Chung, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and professor of Surgery, at the F.

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ACEP4U: UAB Achieves First-Ever Emergency Department Accreditation from ACEP 

ACEP Now

UAB has Alabamas only Level 1 Trauma Center and the only Level 1 Burn Center, and when you consider its comprehensive services for stroke and heart attack, McDonald said theres plenty for UAB to brag about.

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Is Shortness of Breath Due to Heart Failure Different from Shortness of Breath Due to Asthma?

Sensible Medicine

The brain is articulate as injury to it produces diverse, diagnostic symptoms – encephalitis speaks differently than a brain tumor speaks differently than a right MCA stroke. Is it burning, or tingling, or aching, sharp or dull, lancinating? Separately, our language is just not up to describing some symptoms. [i]

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EM@3AM: Basilar Artery Occlusion

EMDocs

Answer : Basilar Artery Occlusion Epidemiology:  Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is a subset of the posterior circulation strokes. Posterior circulation strokes are estimated to account for 20% of all strokes, with BAO accounting for ~1% of all strokes. Symptoms may range from days to months prior to stroke onset.

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Dysphagia and Food Safety Training

American Medical Compliance

GERD, stroke, head or spinal cord damage, and cancer of the head, neck, or esophagus are a few of these. However, a stroke or other neurological condition may make it challenging to trigger the swallowing reflex, a stimulation that enables food and liquids to pass safely through the throat.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.31.24

Taming the SRU

Wound healing is faster with Dermabond compared to sutures, and can be useful as a less-painful technique to repair certain wounds Dermabond differs from non-medicinal superglue because it is sterile, is more flexible, and ultimately less brittle than standard superglue There have been care reports of non-medicinal glue (superglue, nail glue, etc.)

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No Apology Necessary

FEMinEM

Multiple strokes had left her paraplegic and a master of predicting her next urinary tract infection. My grandchildren no longer engage in conversation with me at the holiday dinner table and my daughter is afraid I’ll burn myself when I offer to help with the mash potatoes.