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ACEP Board Meeting Tackles Current Issues, Practice Trends

ACEP Now

And the Board approved a new clinical policy, “Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the ED with Seizures,” rescinding the 2014 clinical policy with same title.

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Big Labs, Little People

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

There are two main reasons for an elevated lactate: the stress state and the shock state. The shock state is due to tissue hypoxia, seen in septic shock. We should use lactate to detect occult shock. Children compensate so well for shock, that subtle tissue hypoxia may not be detected until later.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

EMDocs

However, IgE-mediated or not, anaphylactic shock is possible in either case. In EDs where leadership has not taken care to recognize its potential for creating a bottleneck effect, the CTA can cause substantial delays. CTA head/neck is absolutely indicated if suspicion is high for this condition.

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