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How To Handle Medical Emergencies: A Guide For Everyone

Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd

Knowledge of life-saving skills can significantly impact patient outcomes, potentially saving lives and avoiding future health complications. Rapid medical response is essential in this case to prevent long-term complications and death and improve outcomes. Common reasons include infections, gastrointestinal issues, and food poisoning.

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emDOCs Revamp – Acute Chest Syndrome

EMDocs

Intravenous fluid therapy and hospital outcomes for vaso-occlusive episodes in children, adolescents, and young adults with sickle cell disease. Factors associated with adverse outcome among children with sickle cell disease admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit: an observational cohort. C or 100.4 mg/kg, max 0.4 Front Physiol.

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Maintenance Fluids in Critical Illness

Don't Forget the Bubbles

One-liner… Understanding how to manage maintenance fluids in critically unwell children best is a basic but important way to improve outcomes. She had septic shock on presentation and was resuscitated with 60ml/kg of balanced crystalloid solution and escalating vasoactive medications. Ann Intensive Care.

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Are we on the right TRACT? 

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Some wonder if giving blood to children with a haemoglobin <6g/dl will improve outcomes. Outcomes Primary outcome Mortality at 28 days after randomisation. The authors chose a patient-centred, primary outcome in keeping with their pragmatic design. What were the research questions? The study asked TWO questions: 1.

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Paediatric IV Fluid Prescribing

Mind The Bleep

The children who received no bolus had significantly better outcomes and reduced mortality compared to the two bolus group. [2] saline vs balanced crystalloid solutions for initial fluid management in the treatment of septic shock which may give us more insight into this topic. [5] Boluses were given in 20-40ml/kg aliquots.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.5.23

Taming the SRU

beta blockers decrease ability to dissipate heat through increase CO, diuretics predispose to dehydration, or anticholinergic agents can affect thermoregulation) Clinical Presentation: Temperature elevation, usually 40.5C EtOH, amphetamines, or cocaine) Prescription drugs (i.e.

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Wide Complex Tachycardia. What is the Diagnosis?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Maybe the patient has dehydration, sepsis, hemorrhage, or PE. If you were to give verapamil to someone with sinus tach secondary to underlying pathology, you would harm them and perhaps provoke hypotension and shock. Outcome: The etiology of the patient's sinus tachycardia was not discovered.

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