PulmCCM
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
"Every hospital, regardless of size, location, and resources can strengthen the quality of care delivered to these patients and ensure their survival," CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, announced at the launch of the program. Unlike strokes and STEMIs, sepsis has no gold standard for diagnosis. ” What is that, a sepsis Stasi?
PulmCCM
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Cardiovascular care, strokes Mechanical thrombectomy was shown to markedly improve functional independence after large ischemic strokes ( SELECT2 ), heralding a new standard of care for the condition. STRESS-L ) Continuous meropenem infusions were not superior to usual dosing in treating critically ill patients with sepsis.
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EMDocs
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Under standard operating protocols, residual contrast materials are usually wasted, according to current CDC and JC standards. CT scans have become an integral part of the ED diagnostic process, serving as a diagnostic tool to aid in determining appropriate disposition, risk assessment, and guiding admission decisions.
ACEP Now
JULY 6, 2023
5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021.
PulmCCM
APRIL 10, 2025
They are rising, but the study (Rosa et al American Journal Infection Control 2025) only showed that they rose significantly at Jackson Health Systems in Miami from 2020 to 2023, which is not news (the CDC’s last tranche of national surveillance data included 2023). Most patients had ischemic stroke. hours after stroke onset?
RebelEM
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or what the CDC recently renamed infection-related ventilator-associated complication (IVAC), is defined as a nosocomial pneumonia occurring on day 3 of mechanical ventilation that was preceded by 2 days of stable or decreasing ventilator requirements. 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 3, 2023
This guideline revision is particularly timely as EMS systems have shown their abilities to dramatically improve survival and neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, STEMI, acute stroke, and other time-sensitive conditions. National Center for Health Statistics: Mortality Data on CDC WONDER. Prehosp Emerg Care. Accessed 2022, [link].
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