Northwestern EM Blog

JUNE 16, 2024

If high suspicion or known overdose, involve and consult your local Poison Center [8]. For example, hypothyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, sepsis, neuromuscular disease, malnutrition, thiamine deficiency, hypoglycemia can all lead to hypothermia [11-13]. It is often associated with severe bradycardia (HR<50 bpm.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2016

Distributive Shock The most common cause of distributive shock is sepsis, followed by anaphylactic, toxicologic, adrenal, and neurogenic causes. Children with sepsis come in two varieties: warm shock and cold shock. Is this in an infarction, an infection, a poisoning? Now , we look at contractility. Pediatrics. Crit Care Med.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JULY 1, 2016

They look like stacks of paper within normal bone – you can see them also in anemia, lead poisoning, and other causes. For bacterial focal pyomyositis , give empiric antibiotics, admit them for major inpatient workup, and think about early surgical consultation if you think you need sepsis source control.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

2) Hypoxia, including poisons of oxidative phosphorylation such as HS, CO, CN. 3) Anemia, or poisons of hemoglobin such as methemoglobin or CO 4) Fixed coronary stenosis that limits flow. For instance: sepsis, bleeding, dehydration, hypoxia, and mild ACS. Hypotension may of course be a result of a brady- or tachydysrhythmia.

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 5, 2025

Sepsis Robots or Sepsis Humans The proliferation of sepsis alerts in the ED has reached levels best described as obscene. The common refrain from trained clinicians: We are smarter than any computer or simple scoring system, and we can rapidly and accurately identify sepsis by ourselves, thank you very much. N Engl J Med.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

She is concerned about food poisoning and says the groin/thigh pain feels like a prior episode of sciatica. Sepsis is diagnosed and antibiotics started for the first time. High level amputation is considered, but she dies of sepsis and multiorgan failure on hospital day 7. Temp is 98.7 and pulse 121. It reveals a 7.5

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Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

Subsequent exposure results in a T-cell mediated response (Type IV hypersensitivity reaction) Plants: Toxicodendron species (poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac) Also present in foods, including pistachio, cashew, and mango.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 4, 2020

not ED specific) Food poisoning is responsible for 5% of AGE but results in 30% of deaths. Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Toxin produced by algae consumed by reef fish like grouper, red snapper, sea bass and Spanish mackerel. not ED specific) * Food poisoning is responsible for 5% of AGE but results in 30% of deaths.

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EB Medicine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Nachi: And don’t forget our peer reviewers this month, Dr. Daniel Sessions, a medical toxicologist working at the South Texas Poison Center, and our very own editor-in-chief, Dr. Andy Jagoda, who is also Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Jeff: What a team! But, let’s get back to the snakes.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 6, 2024

A Myriad of Infectious Disease Papers The use of steroids in severe sepsis remains challenging, primarily as proper patient selection is necessary to tease out those with the greatest likelihood of benefit. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial. percent to 38.3

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Thinking Critical Care

MAY 18, 2023

To everybody outside Glasgow glucocorticoids seemed to be the answer and Chicago surgeon William Schumer was their chief flag waver, claiming in 1976 that steroid therapy reduced the mortality of saline-treated sepsis in his service from 33% to around 10%. [5] There are post scriptums to this story.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

to divert the plane).

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Taming the SRU

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

haffner and wright The number of psychiatric emergencies across the U.S., mg/kg (of 0.1 mg/kg (of 0.1 2x maintenance rate

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