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Serial PoCUS for ED Patients with Acute Dyspnea: Is More Actually Better?

RebelEM

It can be used to distinguish between various conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, acute heart failure (AHF), pleural effusion, pulmonary edema, pericardial effusion, pneumothorax, and pneumonia [2,3]. to −0.66) and −1.66 (95% CI −2.09 to −0.78) and -1.97 (95% CI −2.70

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 038 | Lung Transplantation

Emergency Medicine Ireland

This is certainly outside the realm of intensive care but remains a somewhat magical act that my surgical and anaesthetistic colleagues perform in the operating room. Post op is where intensive care is subbed onto the field to take over the physiology of the fairly roughed up transplant patient.

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A Heartfelt Plea to Become A Primary Care General Internist

Sensible Medicine

Atrial fibrillation, COPD, serous otitis media, pyelonephritis, a sprained knee, a rash, epididymitis, (I could go on and on and on) are all within your purview. You will bring them through pneumonias, critical illnesses, break-ups, and operative complications. You can answer any patient’s concerns. You are expected to do it all.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

PulmCCM

Ascension is a $27 billion, 140-hospital conglomerate operating in 19 states—the third largest system in the U.S The other new signal is in corporate health care operations: One of the largest U.S. by some accounts (after HCA and the VA). This is not a hot research area.) I had never heard of this practice before. (To

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Health to The Chief!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

President Eisenhower's Operation for Regional Enteritis A Footnote to History. Rogers, William Warren. “ The Death of a President, April 12, 1945: An Account from Warm Springs ” Reprinted from The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, Summer 1991. Heaton, L. Ravdin, I. Blades, B., & Whelan, T. Annals of surgery, 159(5), 661.

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