St. Emlyn
JULY 11, 2024
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine's guidelines for managing non-fatal strangulation (NFS). These guidelines advocate a trauma-informed, multidisciplinary approach to improve outcomes for patients who have experienced NFS. @stemlyns #FOAMed The post Non-fatal strangulation appeared first on St.Emlyn's.
The Bottom Line
JULY 11, 2024
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (REVISE) D. Cook. NEJM 2024. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404245 Clinical Question In mechanically ventilated adults, does stress ulcer prophylaxis with intravenous pantoprazole (40 mg daily), compared with placebo (0.9% saline), reduce the occurrence of clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding at 90 days?
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Science Based Medicine
JULY 11, 2024
Discussions about the GBD tend to take place in the conditional tense- what would, could, and should have happened. But the GBD actually existed and we can examine what actually happened. The post Part 1: We Don’t Have to Wonder if the Great Barrington Declaration Could Have “Worked”. In the Real World, It Failed. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
ACEP Now
JULY 11, 2024
It’s 7 a.m. and before you’ve even taken the first sips of your morning coffee, you’ve already received sign out. The last person on your list is the young man resting in a hallway bed recovering from a drunken fight. Thankfully he has no major injuries and by the time you get around to evaluating him, he’s clinically sober come up and eager to leave.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 11, 2024
This is another case sent by the undergraduate (who is applying to med school) who works as an EKG tech. How is it possible that a kid who has not even started medical school can know so much about EKGs and cardiology? Because: 1) He has been reading this blog for a long time. 2) He is curious This is how Pendell got started. Case A 43 year old male with a history of DM II, hyperlipidemia, and a family history of myocardial infarction presented to a family clinic with two days of epigastric pain
Canadian EM
JULY 11, 2024
Clinical scenario A 27-year old female presents to the emergency department (ED) after a fall onto her hand from amotorized scooter. She has pain on the radial aspect of her left wrist and anatomical snuffbox.However, the X-rays do not indicate an obvious scaphoid fracture. Clinical question: What are the predictive clinical features for occult scaphoid fractures in patients with normal initial radiographs in the ED?
EM Ottawa
JULY 11, 2024
In Fall 2023, I was working an evening shift at a community hospital when we got a patch. A 3-year-old girl was being brought in by EMS with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. CPR was ongoing, and their ETA was 10 minutes. We prepared the ED for the patient’s arrival. According to EMS, the patient had […] The post Invasive Group A Strep (iGAS).
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NRC Health
JULY 11, 2024
By Jon Roberts, MD, Pulmonology, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Driscoll Children’s Hospital shares his reflections on importance of listening to patients and families to improve the patient experience. The post The power of human connection in healthcare: A pediatric physician’s reflection appeared first on NRC Health.
Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd
JULY 11, 2024
Dengue is a disease contracted from the bite of mosquitoes infected with one of the dengue viruses. It is a viral infection that affects millions of people worldwide. Mostly occurring in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, dengue fever causes symptoms commonly associated with fever and flu. Dengue is a significant public health concern caused by the dengue virus, which is spread by the bite of the infected female mosquito, the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
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