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Medical Malpractice Insights: A Rare Presentation – Groin pain? Nec fasc? Diabetes? Appendicitis?

EMDocs

Exam is normal except for tenderness as documented in the diagram. Sepsis is diagnosed and antibiotics started for the first time. High level amputation is considered, but she dies of sepsis and multiorgan failure on hospital day 7. She never had a documented abdominal exam. I just failed to document it.

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EQUAL: a Straightforward Approach To Caring for Disabled Patients

ACEP Now

This makes documentation and communication of the utmost importance for these patients for their health and safety. Oftentimes, it can be an indication of pain, infection, distress, anxiety, dehydration, or the first sign of sepsis. This leads into the next part of the model—Assessment. One commonly used example is tachycardia.

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Paediatric IV Fluid Prescribing

Mind The Bleep

This is a child who is clearly dehydrated and unable to tolerate oral fluids therefore IV fluids are the best option. Maintenance Fluids In 1957, Malcolm Holliday and William Segar published an article in the Journal of Paediatrics, which claimed to be a simple scheme that could be easily remembered to calculate fluid requirements.

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Episode 30 - Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Bariatric Surgery

EB Medicine

Leakage from the staple line typically presents within the first week, but can present up to 35 days, usually with fevers, tachycardia, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting sepsis, or peritonitis. Some may present with isolated tachycardia while others may present with profound sepsis – tachycardia, hypotension, and fever. At 6 to 8 mL/kg.

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Travel-Related Illnesses in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

In one ED study, ALL cases of missed travel-related illness did not have a documented travel history in their ED note , whereas 90% of the identified travel-related illnesses had a provider documented travel history (Greenky 2022) Those who are visiting friends and relatives (VFR) are typically at highest risk.

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Sickle Cell Disease Module

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Vaccination: PCV13 (pneumococcal vaccination), meningococcal vaccines, and Hib conjugated vaccines are important to prevent life-threatening sepsis. Sickle cell patients also qualify to receive the annual influenza vaccine, since influenza virus infection predisposes to bacterial pneumonia and sepsis caused by S. pneumoniae and S.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Tumor Lysis Syndrome

Taming the SRU

original document created by author of post. paclitaxel, doxorubicin, cisplatin) high-risk monoclonal antibody treatments (i.e. Disposition These patients should be admitted to the ICU for close monitoring of life-threatening arrhythmias, urine output, electrolytes every four to six hours, and aggressive fluid resuscitation (9).