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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

This led the authors to speculate that qSOFA parameters were being documented more diligently on the wards randomized to screening. Saudi Arabia is considered an authoritarian society, and internationally significant research projects have important political value to the monarchy.

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SGEM#310: I Heard A Rumour – ER Docs are Not Great at the HINTS Exam

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is the New York ACEP liaison for the Research and Education Committee and is a past ALL NYC EM Resident Education Fellow. You’re about to call in your MRI tech from home, but then you remember reading that the HINTS exam is more sensitive than early MRI for diagnosis of posterior stroke. How hard can it be?”

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IV Metoprolol vs Diltiazem for A fib with RVR and Concomitant Heart Failure

Taming the SRU

If untreated, atrial fibrillation can increase clot formation and lead to an increased risk for heart attack and stroke as well as development of congestive heart failure. Discussion The researchers concluded that there was no difference in rate control at 30 minutes when utilizing diltiazem vs metoprolol based on this study.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Emergency physicians have become leaders in achieving cost efficiency in health care, predominantly through implementation of new processes and research findings, enabling us to achieve significant financial savings. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.31.24

Taming the SRU

to teach you and your learner something new on shift skin adhesives WITH dr. hill Dermabond is a polymer (octyl cyanoacrylate) that can be used to repair lacerations in the Emergency Department faster than sutures, allowing the ED physician to be more efficient.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Less common causes of troponemia are: Kawasaki disease, pediatric stroke, or neuromuscular disease. for the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents. ACCF 2012 Expert Consensus Document on Practical Clinical Considerations in the Interpretation of Troponin Elevations.

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52 in 52 – #38: Thrombolysis Guided by Perfusion Imaging up to 9 Hours after Onset of Stroke

EMDocs

This week we cover the EXTEND trial looking at thrombolysis up to 9 hours after stroke onset. and 9 hours of symptom onset; stroke symptoms that started during sleep were assumed to have started halfway between the actual last known well and the time of wake-up.

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