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10 Tips for New Attending Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. If you are single coverage right off the bat, you need to be familiar with your facility’s OB, peds, and difficult airway resuscitation equipment and resources.

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Perspectives – Aortic Laceration in a Rural Mississippi ED: A resident’s response

EMDocs

Remember that while mistakes in resuscitation are often dissected and analyzed, it is equally crucial to acknowledge and celebrate the moments of impeccable execution, where lives are saved and hope is restored. He is on a vasopressin infusion now after the four unit bolus from the initial resuscitation. Should be here in 5 minutes.”

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

The primary outcome was 30-day mortality with secondary outcomes looking at 24 hour in-hospital mortality, blood resuscitation at 6 and 24 hours, incidence of multiorgan failure, ARDS, nosocomial infection, early seizures, PE/DVT, crystalloid resuscitation after 24 hours, and the incidence of coagulopathy. Arch Surg 2012; 147:113-119.[

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ED Airway Control —When Two Lives Are At Stake!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. When: The patient needs airway control for resuscitation of mother or child, emergent surgery for maternal or fetal indications; block cannot be effected or would be unsafe. What’s different about late-gravidity airways?