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ECG Cases 25: ‘Late STEMI’ – How acute is the coronary occlusion?

Emergency Medicine Cases

In this ECG Cases blog we look at 10 patients with potentially ischemic symptoms. Which had a coronary occlusion, and how acute were they? Jesse McLaren explains 'Late STEMI' and how reperfusion strategies should not be based on time of symptom onset. The post ECG Cases 25: ‘Late STEMI’ – How acute is the coronary occlusion? appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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Balanced Fluid PICU | Fluid + TBI | DKA, Na, AMS | BaSICS RCT Parts 1 & 2

JournalFeed

It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of September 13-17, 2021. We cover balanced fluids in the PICU, crystalloids for TBI patients, DKA fluid-dropping sodium-AMS, BaSICS part1, and BsSICS part 2.

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SGEM#345: Checking In, Checking Out for Non-Operative Treatment of Appendicitis

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: September 16th, 2021 Reference: Sippola et al. Effect of Oral Moxifloxacin vs Intravenous Ertapenem Plus Oral Levofloxacin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis. The APPAC II Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rob Leeper is an assistant professor of surgery at Western University and the London Health Sciences Center.

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Three Conditions That Define Healthcare

33 Charts

Since the pandemic healthcare has undergone a remarkable transformation. Before COVID dropped in as our latest wicked problem, technology was upending everything we do. I’ve been thinking a lot about the burnout, confusion, uncertainty, and exhaustion that we’re facing. I’ve been thinking about the conditions that define healthcare. When we talk about these challenges that we’re facing there’s a tendency to blame isolated issues — we believe that our problems can be solved with targe

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EM Quick Hits 32 Checkpoint Inhibitors, Adult Epiglotitits, HSP, Heat Stroke, Bell’s Palsy and Leukemia

Emergency Medicine Cases

In this EM Quick Hits: Walter Himmel on new diseases associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, Leeor Sommer on the evolution of epiglottitis - adult epiglottitis clinical pearls, Sarah Reid on how to pick up HSP, Anand Swaminathan on an approach to management of heat stroke, Justin Morgenstern on the association between pediatric Bell's palsy and leukemia.

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Imaging Case of the Week 482

EMergucate

The left shoulder x-rays are from a 30 year old who has sustained injury to their shoulder post fall.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 052 | Bronchoscopy in the ICU

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. There’s not a huge amount of notes on procedural stuff that I accumulated for the exams but I did collect some interesting bits on bronchoscopy, particularly because it was so. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. There’s not a huge amount of notes on procedural stuff that I accumulated for the exams but I did collect some interesting bits on bronchoscopy, particularly because it was so novel to

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In-Situ Simulation- Trauma

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Thank you for those that participated in today’s Simulation.

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Papers of the month

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Important studies/ research papers relevant to Emergency Medicine

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Low dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin reduce mortality and morbidity in cardiovascular high risk pt

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Compass trial Design– double-blind trial involving placebo medication vs study medication, March 2013 to May 2016. Rivaroxaban (2.

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ECG of the Week 22nd September 2021

EMergucate

A 50 year old male presents to ED after being found in a park.

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Lab case 340

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47 year old woman with known type I diabetes mellitus presented with diarrhoea.

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ECG of the Week 22nd September 2021

EMergucate

A 50 year old male presents to ED after being found in a park.

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