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

REBEL EM

History of liver disease, history of substance abuse disorder, and history of delirium tremens were also extracted from the hospital EMR. J Emerg Med 2013 , 44 (3), 592-598.e592. Am J Emerg Med 2013 , 31 (4), 734-742. Phenobarbital for acute alcohol withdrawal: a prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study.

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The Role of Ridesharing in Emergency Medicine

AAEM RSA

A 2013 review, published in the Journal of Community Health, reported that one in four lower-income patients missed or rescheduled medical appointments due to a lack of transportation. The integration with EMRs also provides a better way for hospitals to collect data to determine the true impact of their transportation programs.

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

REBEL EM

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

Core EM

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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