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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

ACEP Now

Our nurse did not study Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System for Action Units to code “fear” in the patient’s face. In such cases, would you wait for a lactate, white blood cell count, bandemia, or other diagnostics to confirm a source of infection before starting antibiotics, fluid resuscitation, and/or pressors?

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Chemical Burns

Mind The Bleep

Establish IV access and begin fluid resuscitation with 250ml boluses of 0.9% This includes adequate pain control, fluid resuscitation, and stabilization of any systemic complications. Provide detailed documentation of the initial assessment, treatment provided, and the patient’s response to interventions.

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Thinking Critical Care - Untitled Article

Thinking Critical Care

This exclusive event, produced in collaboration with Flosonics Medical, will take place on September 28th, 2024 , in Toronto , Ontario, Canada This masterclass is designed for those who seek a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques of venous congestion, Doppler ultrasound, and fluid resuscitation.

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Paediatric IV Fluid Prescribing

Mind The Bleep

There could be any number of reasons for this but some examples are: they have severe D&V and aren’t keeping fluids down, or because they are pre or post-op, or have presented very unwell and need fluid resuscitation. saline + 5% dextrose or plasma-lyte 148 + 5% dextrose.

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Clinical Course The paramedic activated a “Code STEMI” alert and transported the patient nearly 50 miles to the closest tertiary medical center. In addition, the patient received 750 mL of fluid resuscitation with transient improvement of blood pressure.

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Popular Antiobesity Medications Bring New Challenges to Emergency Physicians

ACEP Now

There have been documented cases of overdose, and of note, there is no known antidote. Management of symptoms is the same for all of these, relying upon fluid resuscitation, antiemetics, and electrolyte repletion. Semaglutide has a half-life of approximately one week; as such, it is long-acting and requires supportive measures.

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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

Secondary outcomes included code activation, pressor therapy, initiation of HD, MDROs, and C. Process measures suggested that doctors and nurses responded to the alerts with increased testing of lactate levels and fluid resuscitation. Thus, the results would have to be adjusted. Median age was 59; 51% were male. diff infection.

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