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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This comment might be one of the reasons I’ve been skeptical of sepsis screening. If there is one thing a medicine resident or hospitalist should be able to do well is identify the patients who are sick and need attention. Maybe because of my skepticism, I’ve found studies of sepsis screening interesting.

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But Can You Just PO?

Taming the SRU

Fluid management in the Emergency Department (ED) is crucial in the adequate resuscitation of the acutely ill and decompensating patient. Patients present to the ED with hypovolemia secondary to a plethora of causessome requiring IV fluid resuscitation and others requiring none. AtherlyJohn et al.

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EM@3AM: Leukopenia

EMDocs

Well keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. PCP Pneumonia, Sepsis) can be discharged with initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in consultation with Infectious Disease (ID) physician with full ID evaluation outpatient. 10^9/L) Moderate (0.50.9 10^9/L) Severe (< 0.5 10^9/L) Generalized leukopenia (i.e. Medications: 25.6%

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The 90th Bubble wrap DFTB X The Bridge

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Reviewed by Dr Faye Leggott Article 2: Does fluid overload increase mortality in children with sepsis? Association between fluid overload and mortality in children with sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Reviewed by Dr Sadia Irshad Article 3: Updates on the management of sepsis and shock Long B, Gottlieb M.

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EM@3AM: Stercoral Colitis

EMDocs

Well keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. Clinical exam: 2, 3, 9 Abdominal distension and tenderness Nausea and vomiting Stool present in the rectal vault Peritonitis may be accompanied by hemodynamic instability in the case of sepsis. May still be passing small amounts of stool and flatus.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Vasoactive Drug use in Children with Septic Shock

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Four-year-old Ed is being resuscitated for presumed Invasive Group A Streptococcal Sepsis from tonsilitis. And lastly, it’s actually quite hard to see how well the cardiovascular system is working, and this is one of its measurable features. So, fluid has been tried but has not got close to fixing the problem.

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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

ACEP Now

For example, experienced emergency physicians have great clinical gestalt and accuracy to predict sepsis in critically ill patients at just 15 minutes from patient arrival—more so than scoring tools like the qSOFA, MEWs, and even machine-learning trained artificial intelligence models. Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Kwong K, Wells GA, et al.