EB Medicine

JULY 2, 2021

EMplify – July 2021 Announcements: Be on the lookout for an announcement regarding the new EB Medicine app, coming to an App Store near you this month !! HIV- An Interview With Dr. Daniel Egan See the EB Medicine Article @ [link] Why HIV? 2018 , 1,2 million people living with HIV, almost 40k new infections People living with HIV visit the ED 3 x per year on average HIV infected patients accounted for 6 in 1000 ED visits in 2017 New Transmission of HIV, Figure 1 What does acute infection look li

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EMergucate

JUNE 30, 2021

A 70 year old male presents with SOB and neck pain.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

JUNE 29, 2021

With the help of a special guest, EBM guru Dr. Ken Milne of the The SGEM, Anton and Justin look at all the various potential indications for TXA and review the available evidence. Should we be using TXA for epistaxis, postpartum hemorrhage, hyphema or hemoptysis? Is it a miracle drug that stops all bleeding? Or has it been drastically overhyped? Was CRASH-2 enough to be definitive, or does the classic EBM mantra of "we need more studies" remain true?

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Advanced Medical Reviews

JUNE 28, 2021

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 with three primary goals. First, to make affordable health insurance available to more people; second, to expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the federal poverty level; and third, to support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.

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Medical Law

JUNE 28, 2021

Airbnb and other vacation rental companies have become an increasingly popular way for people to rent out vacation homes, and more people than ever are flocking to the California coast. With the growing usage of these rental companies, there are more injuries than ever before — and these incidents raise important questions about liability that don’t factor into most vacation plans: if a renter is injured while staying at someone else’s home, who is at fault — the renter or the owner?

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PHEM Cast

JUNE 27, 2021

Definitions UK definition (RCEM): It describes the sudden onset of aggressive and violent behaviour and autonomic dysfunction, typically in the setting of acute on chronic drug abuse or serious mental illness. Australian definition (NSW Health): Behaviour that puts the patient or others at immediate risk of serious harm and may include threatening or aggressive behaviour, extreme distress, and serious self-harm which could cause major injury or death.

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EMergucate

JUNE 27, 2021

The following lateral neck x-ray is from a 3 year old with fever and neck swelling. What can be observed?

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JournalFeed

JUNE 26, 2021

It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of Jun 21-25, 2021. We cover the benefit of scribes, choosing alternative antibiotics in penicillin allergic patients, how to prevent post-LP headache, treating highly resistant gram-negatives, and more problems with the HEART score.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JULY 1, 2021

PEMplaybook.

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EMergucate

JUNE 28, 2021

A 70 year old male presents to ED complaining of shortness of breath and neck pain.

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CasesBlog

JUNE 26, 2021

Middlescence is defined as the time between adolescence and senescence. "It is a paradox of life that we do not begin to live until we begin to die. Death begins at thirty, that is, deterioration of the muscle cells sets in." [link] From the video below: Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis | The Royal Society. In this lecture, Professor Mark Jackson, winner of the 2018 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, explores a rich range of historical sources to argue that t

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Emergency Medicine Ireland

JUNE 28, 2021

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This week we’ll make a fly by at part of Oh Chapter 100 looking at haemostatic failure. The understanding of the haemostatic system seems a little like the universe at. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. This week we’ll make a fly by at part of Oh Chapter 100 looking at haemostatic failure.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 27, 2021

This is a case from many years ago that I discovered recently. The patient has heart failure as a result of this event. A 50-something man with history only of alcohol abuse and hypertension (not on meds) presented with sudden left chest pain, sharp, radiating down left arm, cramping, that waxes and wanes but never goes completely away. There was SOB at the start and increased work of breathing.

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EMergucate

JUNE 27, 2021

15 year old boy presented with tiredness, abdominal pain and shortness of breath.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 26, 2021

Date: June 25th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Bond is an emergency medicine physician and assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. He is also an avid FOAM supporter/producer through various online outlets including TheSGEM. Reference: Chinnock et al. Self-obtained vaginal swabs are not inferior to provider-performed endocervical sampling for emergency department diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia […] The post SGEM#335: Sisters are Doin’ It for Themselves…Self-Obtained Vag

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MEDEST118

JUNE 26, 2021

An original post by Mario Rugna

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