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REBEL Cast Ep123: Reduced-Dose Systemic Peripheral Alteplase in Massive PE?

RebelEM

in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47

Stroke 136
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Episode 26 – Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (Trauma CME)

EB Medicine

Post opiate hypotension in prehospital trauma patients is a rare but documented complication. In terms of radiography, a chest x-ray should be obtained as rib fractures, hemopneumothorax, and mediastinal free air are all things you wouldn't want to miss and are also associated with blunt cardiac injury. Nachi: Definitely.

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Grand Rounds Recap 8.16.23

Taming the SRU

Lane & Mcdonough Definition of an immediate whole body CT (iWBCT) scan Shortly after patient arrival.

Sepsis 95
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Grand Rounds Recap 5.3.23

Taming the SRU

then need further evaluation Usually with CTA imaging If normal physical exam & ABI>0.9,

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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She sustained a large scalp hematoma along with several rib and vertebral fractures, but with CT scanning of chest/abdomen/pelvis/C-T-L-spine and head, no life threatening injuries were found. International expert consensus document on takotsubo syndrome (part I): Clinical characteristics, diagnostic criteria, and pathophysiology.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.