The Trauma Pro

AUGUST 25, 2023

They tried to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that compared outcomes in splenectomy vs. angioembolization patients. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of research material out there. Not very precise, I know. But what would EAST say? Whether this is actually true is open to debate.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 25, 2025

PCP Pneumonia, Sepsis) can be discharged with initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in consultation with Infectious Disease (ID) physician with full ID evaluation outpatient. 0000000000000305 Kazumi Y (2023) The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Leukopenia in Different Populations and Regions. BioMed Research International, 2020, 1-10.

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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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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. The background for cash giveaways stem from the association of low income and worse health outcomes. The primary outcome was positive but there were caveats.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 30, 2023

Diastolic shock index and clinical outcomes in patients with septic shock. The pathologic vasodilation observed in sepsis is thought to result from failure of the vascular smooth muscle to constrict appropriately, leading to hypotension as well as tissue hypoperfusion (2). Ospina-Tascón GA, Teboul J-L, Hernandez G, et al.

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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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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 14, 2023

She is also a member of the Don’t’ Forget the Bubbles team where she serves as the editor for the monthly research round up, Bubble WRAP. We have been reading online about something called sepsis that can be deadly. Does he have sepsis?” Specifically, heart rate and respiratory rates are used in early attempts to detect sepsis.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MARCH 4, 2024

Article 1: Infections in Foreign Travellers Bird C, Hayward GN, Turner PJ, Wasala D, Merrick V, Lyttle MD, Mullen N, Fanshawe TR; for Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI). Reviewed by: John Coveney Article 2: How do we define sepsis in children? Paediatr Int Child Health. 2024 Jan 11:1-7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0179

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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. 4 Overall, good or excellent outcomes were seen in 79 percent of the reteplase cohort versus 70 percent of those receiving alteplase.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 31, 2023

What outcomes did they look at? The patients were identified through site leads from the PERUKI research network. Was the outcome accurately measured to minimise bias? The inability to test for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies may have led to an underestimation of the impact of the virus on the reported outcomes.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. 4 Repeated trials have not shown alteplase to have any signal of better outcomes, nor tenecteplase to have an association with increased adverse events. Gotta catch ‘em all!” How Best to Stop the Bleeding in Trauma? percent to 38.3

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AENJ: Current Issue

MAY 8, 2024

This column on translating research into practice is crafted to offer advanced practice registered nurses an analysis of current research topics that hold practical relevance for emergency care settings.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Spoon Feed In this multicenter, randomized controlled trial comparing suturing the fingernail back onto the nail bed versus simply covering the nail bed with a non-adherent dressing after repair of a nail bed injury, there was no statistically significant difference in infection rate or cosmetic outcome. 3: High or Low Fluid Volume in Sepsis?

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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. Secondary Outcome By day 90, mortality was 9.3% 5148 excluded 800 enrolled and randomized in the trial. in the hydrocortisone group vs. 11.9%

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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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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. Sepsis-3!!

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 10, 2024

The factorial design chosen by Dr Maitland and her research group means that several comparisons in transfusion practice could be carried out at the same time. What were the research questions? Some wonder if giving blood to children with a haemoglobin <6g/dl will improve outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2019;381(5):407-419.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The Effect of Vitamin C on Clinical Outcome in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. The Effect of Vitamin C on Clinical Outcome in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Critical Care Medicine. Critical Care Medicine.

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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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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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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 8, 2024

We suggest this list can help you discover relevant or interesting articles for your local journal club or allow you to keep a finger on the pulse of paediatric research. The researchers compared children diagnosed via screening with those diagnosed after clinical symptoms appeared. Dell KM, et al. Koenis MM et al. Eur J Pediatr.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Date: December 10th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Carly Eastin is an Associate Professor, Division of Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Back in 2019 we were talking about Vitamin C for sepsis ( SGEM#268 ). Not much has changed over the last two years.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 17, 2023

We suggest this list can help you discover relevant or interesting articles for your local journal club or allow you to keep a finger on the pulse of paediatric research. Original clinical studies The impact of the early onset neonatal sepsis calculator on antibiotic initiation: a single center study in Israel. Tritos NA, et al.

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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. Background: Dr. 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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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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Northwestern EM Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Acidosis Acidosis in shock states can present from multiple different sources, including sepsis, hypoxemia, ingestions, hyperlactatemia from hypoperfusion, amongst others. However, even subclinical hypothyroidism with an elevated TSH but normal T4 increases risk of poor outcomes due to effects on cardiac function. 2) Boyd J, Walley K.

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Northwestern EM Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The primary outcome of the study was the response in MAP three hours after the start of angiotensin II infusion. It showed improvement in blood pressure which is a clinically important parameter but not a patient-oriented outcome. However, one limitation of the study was that it was underpowered to demonstrate a mortality difference.

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Mind The Bleep

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The children who received no bolus had significantly better outcomes and reduced mortality compared to the two bolus group. [2] saline), however more research is needed in this area. [4] Boluses were given in 20-40ml/kg aliquots.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

Although they may not appear as physically injurious as convulsive seizures, nonconvulsive seizures can significantly impact the neurological outcomes and overall prognosis of patients in critical care settings. The Neuroscience Research Group (NeuRos). 2015;31:22-26. Rodríguez Quintana JH, Bueno SJ, Zuleta-Motta JL, et al. April 2024.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One-liner… Understanding how to manage maintenance fluids in critically unwell children best is a basic but important way to improve outcomes. Jasmine, a hypothetical case Jasmine is a 5-year-old girl weighing 18kg admitted to PICU with suspected sepsis. Remember, we can add more if needed, but taking it away is much harder.

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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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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Exclusions: Oxygen saturations <92% on room air; silent chest; shock or sepsis; previous PICU admission with wheeze; prematurity; other cardiac or respiratory disease; likely alternative diagnosis for the wheeze; or steroid treatment within the preceding 14 days. Intervention: Three-day course of oral prednisolone (1mg/kg once daily).

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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Outcomes: Primary Outcome: Incidence of post-induction hypotension Secondary Outcome : First-pass success rate of endotracheal intubation Primary Results: 84 articles were identified for potential inclusion. Articles removed were duplicates, contained irrelevant outcomes, or had a significant risk for bias.

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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. Can we prevent NEC?

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PulmCCM

JANUARY 4, 2022

” -Fran Lebowitz Background Quite recently, the BaSICS investigators evaluated the infusion rate of a fluid bolus on patient outcome. The primary outcome was identification of the optimal volume for assessing fluid responsiveness. If I get to the dry cleaners without having a huge fight, that’s challenging enough.”

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Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

EMS was bagging him on arrival Primary notable for Compromised Airway Protection, bilateral Breath sounds, strong pulses,GCS 3 CT images of Head, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, and Spine No acute findings pH of 6.75

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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. Early identification is key!

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