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SGEM Xtra: The Final Countdown – To IncrEMentuM 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Franciso has postgraduate Master's degrees in emergencies and urgent care, clinical ultrasound, and emergency and disaster management, from the University of Elche, the University of Madrid, and the University of Oviedo. He works in prehospital (EMS and HEMS), and at Morales Meseguer Hospital in public medical service in Murcia, Spain.

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Emergency department staff views of NHS 111 First: qualitative interview study in England

Emergency Medicine Journal

Background NHS 111 is a phone and online urgent care triage and assessment system that aims to reduce UK ED demand. In 2020, 111 First was introduced to triage patients before entry to the ED and to offer direct booking for patients needing ED or urgent care into same-day arrival time slots.

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SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

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. Vicki Currie is a paediatric emergency medicine registrar in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom. Case: A 5-year-old boy presents to the emergency department (ED) with his parents for fever and fatigue.

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SGEM#263: Please Stop, Prescribing – Antibiotics for Viral Acute Respiratory Infections

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings. A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings.

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SGEM#375: Only One versus Two-Dose Dexamethasone for Mild to Moderate Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Previous research has compared the efficacy of a multi-day course of prednisone/prednisolone to single dose or two doses of dexamethasone [1-4]. Background: Asthma affects around 9% of children in the United States and asthma exacerbations are a common cause for ED visits.

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Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me

Sensible Medicine

I was proud that I made the diagnosis of temporal arteritis after her presentation had stumped doctors in an urgent care, an emergency room, and in a rheumatology clinic. I will work with you to control your symptoms as best we can and I am open to your knowledge, wisdom, and research.” I met CT early in my career.

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SGEM#402: Call Me – On the Telemental Health Line

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

The effect of telemental versus in-person mental health consults in the emergency department on 30-day utilization and processes of care.