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Episode 32 - Assisting With Air Travel Medical Emergencies: Responsibilities and Pitfalls (Ethics CME)

EB Medicine

Ashoo is an Emergency Physician based out of Tallahassee Florida with a keen interest in informatics who has been featured on several other podcasts you may have heard. Well, with that, let’s get started on our final scheduled episode of EMplify ! Show More v Jeff: Well, this is a first!

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Episode 24 - First Trimester Pregnancy Emergencies: Recognition and Management

EB Medicine

Interestingly, groups have examined outpatient care with 2 days of daily IM ceftriaxone vs inpatient IV antibiotic therapy and they found that there may be a higher than acceptable risk in the outpatient setting as several required eventual admission and one developed septic shock in their relatively small trial.

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PROFID EHRA: The Most Important Trial of the Decade in Cardiology

Sensible Medicine

Yet, still, the vast majority (≈13 of 14) of patients implanted with an ICD for primary prevention never receive a shock, and therefore gain no benefit. Keep in mind that the ICD is a dumb device—as it saves lives by shocking a malignant arrhythmia back to normal. Plus, it’s in mortality, not a composite endpoint.