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Return Encounters in Emergency Department Patients Treated with Phenobarbital Versus Benzodiazepines for Alcohol Withdrawal

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Background: The emergency department is frequently visited by patients suffering from symptomatic alcohol withdrawal, and the traditional management has been dominated by repeated doses of benzodiazepines. Return Encounters in Emergency Department Patients Treated with Phenobarbital Versus Benzodiazepines for Alcohol Withdrawal.

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The Role of Ridesharing in Emergency Medicine

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Schreyer, MD CMQ FAAE Originally published: Common Sense January/February 2021 The advent and broad availability of ridesharing services, such as Lyft and Uber, are changing the way patients access medical services, and emergency departments (EDs) are taking notice. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2019.10.013.

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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

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saline (NS) solutions are both isotonic crystalloids widely used for intravenous fluid resuscitation across many contexts and disease states ( Myburgh 2013 ). Reliance on a billing dataset, instead of EMR or prospective data, likely affected the quality of outcome measurement. Lactated Ringer (LR) and 0.9%

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

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look them up in the EMR to see if theyve been intubated before, and look at the note on the difficulty and grade of view.) Not even the base of the uvula is class 4 (Having a class 3 or class 4 has about 85% sensitivity and 80% specificity for predicting a difficult intubation (Mahmoodpoor, 2013). The other three got cricothyrotomies.

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