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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

MI or stroke). Secondary outcomes were early head injury related death (within 24 hours after injury), all-cause and cause-specific mortality, disability, vascular occlusive events (MI, stroke, DVT, PE), seizures, complications, neurosurgery, days of ICU care, and adverse events within 28 days. in the TXA group and 9.9%

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What Are the Complications of Sickle Cell Trait?

Pediatric Education

There is no positive association for deep venous thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, stroke and no abnormalities of growth parameters in the pediatric population. Mandated SCT screening for certain individuals such as military recruits and US college athletes is controversial.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

Prior to WVU, Dr. Prescott served as a military emergency physician at Brooke Army Medical Center, TX and Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty, NC. million in federal grants. “I I was asked to participate and was thrilled to do it,” he adds. Emergency Care in the United States is good, but it can certainly improve and be better,” Dr.

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Why is there a firehose of information from which to drink?

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The standard "QWERTY" keyboard still in use was designed to slow the typist down as a fast typist could stroke the key levers into hitting each other and jamming the typewriter.) Thus, military necessities generated for some the social mobility and respect that gave them a leg up in the world.

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Episode 28 - Depressed and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Approach

EB Medicine

Nachi: Let’s talk first about special populations - the only one we will discuss this month is military veterans. Interestingly, there may be a role for ketamine, yes, ketamine, in conjunction with oral meds. More on that in a few minutes though. Jeff: The last cutting-edge topic to discuss is telepsychiatry.

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

football players, military). Both can result in heat exhaustion and heat stroke and have many overlapping symptoms. Patients with heat stroke have hot, dry skin and altered mental status (e.g., C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C. Temps greater than 41.5C convulsions, delirium). Bendall, J.