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Best Of AAST #7: How Do You Like Your Platelets – Warm Or Cold?

The Trauma Pro

Researchers from the US Army performed a retrospective registry study on a sample of military casualties over four years. I’m surprised that a military registry could only come up with 75 patients a year to analyze. These low numbers and the nature of this particular registry could inject significant bias as well.

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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. The ECMO team are on their way… Three hours later, Elsa’s gases are better, her PEEP is down to 8, and she’s oxygenating well on 80% oxygen. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721 Kattih, Z.,

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

The adoption of depression screening is, of course, well-intentioned. In a 2017 Lancet trial , 10,190 personnel from the UK military were randomized to post-deployment depression screening or no screening. The benefit of screening is just too small to be detected by well-designed trials. fold (NNH=14, p= 0.01 ).

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Massive Hemoptysis

EM SIM Cases

Since leaving the military, Dr. Koo works as an Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Health and Georgetown University. This case comes from Major Alex Koo.

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Why Pediatric Rare Medicine is Like Timeshare Sales

Sensible Medicine

It is well-recognized that our commercial drug development process, a process that has led to so many nearly miraculous advancements, serves people with rare diseases poorly. Sensible Medicine readers appreciate a well-designed clinical trial. We want a resort that runs with military precision, especially the plumbing.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military.

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Case Report: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Chicago

ACEP Now

He noted spending about five days walking through a jungle, as well as traversing rivers. There was concern for possible cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), therefore he was admitted to the hospital for infectious-disease and surgical consultations, as well as to complete a punch biopsy the following day. Click to enlarge.)