PHEM Cast

APRIL 10, 2016

[link] We hope you enjoyed our sepsis podcast. St Emlyns Induction podcast on Sepsis. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. March 2016.

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The Trauma Pro

AUGUST 25, 2023

Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of research material out there. Embolization patients had fewer infectious complications during their hospital stay and better immune function using the indirect methods noted above. The authors performed two comparisons: angioembolization vs. splenectomy and angioembolization vs. control.

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University of Maryland CC Project

JANUARY 31, 2024

Her current research focuses on improving. Her current research focuses on improving the quality and timeliness of early sepsis care. Jen Ginestra, MD, MSHP is an instructor of medicine in the department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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PulmCCM

DECEMBER 11, 2024

An excellent review article titled “Sepsis and Septic Shock” was published 4 December 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine. health system require us to enter a diagnosis to generate payment by a health insurer, it’s worth emphasizing that sepsis is a syndrome, not a disease.

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Taming the SRU

APRIL 17, 2024

The surviving sepsis guidelines weakly recommend invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring (IABP) over noninvasive blood pressure monitoring (NIBP) with a blood pressure cuff supported by low quality evidence.(1) Surviving sepsis campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2021. Crit Care Med.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 29, 2024

Yet the failure of the hospital readmission penalty policy and sepsis protocols expose the risks of implementing a policy because it sounds good. Dr. Sarah Miller, an economist in the University Michigan business school, led the second trial, named the Open Research Unconditional Income Study or ORUS study.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. Survival to hospital discharge favored the “standard care” group, 47.9 Dr. Radecki (@emlitofnote) is an emergency physician and informatician with Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. Gotta catch ‘em all!” percent to 38.3

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

You may have mastered all the latest changes affecting management of sepsis, STEMI, and opiate-use disorder, but there’s no stopping the relentless revisions to our approach to neurologic emergencies. Dr. Radecki (@emlitofnote) is an emergency physician and informatician with Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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EB Medicine

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This month, we’ll be talking Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock. We have a special episode for you this month… We’ve brought Dr. Jeremy Rose, one of the peer reviewers, and a sepsis expert, on with us to talk through the content this month. Jeff : Sepsis chair. We like it that way.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 30, 2023

Many clinical decision-making tools have been developed and validated in their use to identify and define those who are in sepsis or septic shock, as well as predict a patient’s overall risk of morbidity and mortality, including tools like the SIRS criteria and SOFA score. DSI levels were then distributed into 5 different quintiles.

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RebelEM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can lead to pulmonary and systemic inflammation, resulting in impaired gas exchange, sepsis, organ failure, and an increased risk of death. Strengths: The investigators framed a research question centered on patient outcomes, ensuring the study’s relevance and practicality.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 10, 2024

Severe anaemia is a common and life-threatening cause of hospital admission in children in sub-Saharan Africa. 8% die in hospital, with a further 12% dying in the six months following discharge. What were the research questions? However, there is a huge variation in transfusion practice globally. N Engl J Med.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Professional Medical Societies Call for Elimination of SEP-1 The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), along with societies for emergency medicine physicians and hospitalists, are again speaking up about the ongoing policy experiment known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 17, 2023

The Bubble Wrap Plus is a monthly paediatric journal club reading list from Anke Raaijmakers, working with Professor Jaan Toelen and his team at the University Hospitals in Leuven. This month’s list features answers to intriguing questions such as: ‘ Is the neonatal sepsis calculator useful if women were not screened for GBS?

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Fever in the Emergency Department Predicts Survival of Patients With Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Admitted to the ICU. Guest Skeptic: Jesse Spurr works as a Nurse Educator in the Emergency Department at Redcliffe Hospital in Australia. Following the triage sepsis pathway, recently amended to use qSOFA. Probably not.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Pathway with single-dose long-acting intravenous antibiotic reduces emergency department hospitalizations of patients with skin infections. Pathway with single-dose long-acting intravenous antibiotic reduces emergency department hospitalizations of patients with skin infections. Date: October 20th, 2021 Reference: Talan et al.

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University of Maryland CC Project

JANUARY 31, 2024

Elizabeth Munroe, MD, MSc is a clinical instructor and post-doctoral research fellow in the dvision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Elizabeth Munroe, MD, MSc is a clinical instructor and post-doctoral research fellow in the dvision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan.

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EMDocs

JULY 1, 2023

Upon further research in the 1970’s, retrospective data from autopsies of those patients showed coronary aneurysms 5 Pathophysiology: Kawasaki Disease is a vasculitis of medium sized arteries. Patients should be admitted to the hospital and cardiology consulted early in their course. The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 16, 2022

Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit. Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit. Paul Marik got the critical care world all excited when he claimed a Vitamin C cocktail (Vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine) as a possible cure for sepsis.

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PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Let Families Activate Rapid Response Teams, Says SCCM The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) issued a new guideline on how hospitals and care teams should respond to emergencies outside the ICU or ED (i.e., SCCM now suggests this should be a standard practice at most hospitals. on the medical and surgical wards). Read it here.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Jasmine, a hypothetical case Jasmine is a 5-year-old girl weighing 18kg admitted to PICU with suspected sepsis. Many years ago, there was a large body of evidence in reports from Northern Irish hospitals showing children who received large volumes of hypotonic IV fluids subsequently developed hyponatraemic encephalopathy and cerebral oedema.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2016

Lactate A sick child with sepsis syndrome? In the adult literature, we know that a lactate level above 4 mmol/L in patients with severe sepsis was associated with the need for critical care. The acute recognition and treatment of sepsis is first and foremost, clinical. The short answer – yes.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Lancet January 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Tessa Davis is a Pediatrician specialising in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and currently practicing in a central London hospital. Lancet January 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Tessa Davis is a Pediatrician specialising in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and currently practicing in a central London hospital.

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Thinking Critical Care

MAY 18, 2023

In 1983 I was an Englishman abroad, the London anaesthetist who was appointed to be the English anaesthetist on the Shock Team only because the outstanding candidate from Oxford had preferred to take up a job doing muscle relaxant research with Kitz and Katz in the USA. 4] The research agenda at the time was broad.

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Northwestern EM Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mortality benefit is an extremely elusive goal in critical care research 1 but that doesn’t discount the fact that ATHOS 3 wasn’t designed to demonstrate an improvement in any patient-oriented outcome. Some of the most recent data come from a multi-center retrospective study that includes patients from Northwestern.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 4, 2020

Literature Review: There is abundant literature on pediatric AGE but sparse research on AGE in adults. Stool Cultures: 2017 IDSA guidelines recommends them in patients with fever, bloody or mucoid stools, severe abdominal cramping or tenderness, or signs of sepsis, noting these patients are at higher risk of bacterial infection.

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Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

Trauma/Pre-Hosp Optimal Out-of-Hospital Blood Pressure in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: A Challenge to the Current Understanding of Hypotension Link: [link] Bottom Line: Think about maintaining normotension rather than simply avoiding hypotension in isolated TBI. and NPV(50%).

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

14 Future research is needed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of this device, particularly in the ED environment, where patients may have taken medications or recreational drugs, or may have received sedative or antiepileptic medications. The Neuroscience Research Group (NeuRos). 2015;31:22-26. Neurol Clin Pract.

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EM Updates

JUNE 15, 2021

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is Brooklyn’s largest hospital, an academic quaternary care center with, in normal times, 711 total beds, 66 intensive care beds, and an Emergency Department that treats approximately 120,000 patients per year. Treatment protocols changed rapidly and were devised by departmental and hospital consensus.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families.

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It is unclear if researchers followed specific validated systematic review process guidelines such as PRISMA. The environment, operator-related factors, and equipment are different in a pre-hospital vs. ED setting. Limitations: Non-English papers were excluded. Bibliographies of included studies were not searched.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 28, 2024

Hence, PPHN can be idiopathic or secondary to a variety of conditions such as meconium aspiration syndrome , respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, asphyxia and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Ongoing research and innovation are critical to develop strategies to reduce disease burden further. Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 10, 2024

NEC remains a significant challenge in neonatology, prompting ongoing research and clinical trials to understand its pathogenesis better, improve prevention strategies, and develop more effective treatments. Differential diagnoses include septic ileus, and infection causes such as sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia. Hunter, C.J.,

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 4, 2024

We have teamed up with the team from the Emergency Department at Bristol Royal Hospital, who have used this as a springboard for their journal club. (It’s The hospital is the Paediatric Major Trauma Centre for the South-West. Reviewed by: John Coveney Article 2: How do we define sepsis in children? 2024 Jan 11:1-7.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction Sepsis and septic shock are life-threatening conditions characterized by severe systemic inflammation and organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection. 3,4 Prompt recognition and management of sepsis and septic shock are paramount for the ED clinician.

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RebelEM

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Vitamin C can function as an antioxidant and may mitigate endothelial oxidative stress in sepsis. Amrein 2018) A small, single-center, before-and-after study utilized a sepsis cocktail consisting of IV thiamine, hydrocortisone, and vitamin C and discovered a significant decrease in mortality compared to the control group.

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Mind The Bleep

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is hospital dependent and you should be told about which fluid to prescribe at your induction (or I’m sure the nurses will tell you!) 3] The type of IV fluid you use will vary depending on which hospital you are working in and what is available. saline), however more research is needed in this area. [4] saline + 0.9%

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