ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

A 44 year-old male with unknown past medical history came by emergency medical services (EMS) to the emergency department (ED) for an electrical injury and fall from a high voltage electrical pole. 2,3,5 Except for laundry or electrical car outlets (240 V AC), all U.S. household outlets are rated at 120 V AC.

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EMDocs

JUNE 27, 2024

Am J Emerg Med. Chinawa JM, Ubesie AC, Chukwu BF, Ikefuna AN, Emodi IJ. 2016 Dec;91(12):1185-1190. Epub 2016 Oct 3. Intranasal fentanyl and discharge from the emergency department among children with sickle cell disease and vaso-occlusive pain: A multicenter pediatric emergency medicine perspective.

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ACEP Now

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Many conditions outside of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) mimic ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), but only a handful of cases have reported ST-elevations (STE) in the setting of pancreatic inflammation where underlying ACS was excluded. Emergency Medicine Reports website.Published June 1, 2016. Click to enlarge.)

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Optimally, bystander CPR, including the administration of rescue breaths, should be initiated prior to arrival of emergency medical services. 3 Once the patient arrives in your emergency department, a rapid review of the patient’s status and results of resuscitative efforts should be performed. Am J Emerg Med.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The NIHSS cutoff that predicts outcomes is 4 points higher in AC compared with PC infarctions. doi: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2016-012515. Epub 2016 Jul 15. Application of the ABCD2 score to identify cerebrovascular causes of dizziness in the emergency department. Neurocrit Care 24, 172–179 (2016). Arch Neurol.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

References: Heffner AC et al. Incidence and factors associated with cardiac arrest complicating emergency airway management. actors Associated with the Occurrence of Cardiac Arrest after Emergency Tracheal Intubation in the Emergency Department. Int J Emerg Med. J Emerg Med. 2017 Dec;10(1):1.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The Smith-Modified Sgarbossa Criteria Accurately Diagnose Acute Coronary Occlusion in Emergency Department Patients With Ventricular Paced Rhythm. Here is our abstract from SAEM 2018. We are writing the manuscript right now, with more patients enrolled. Dodd1 , Deborah L. Zvosec2 , Michael A. Data from ten sites are presented here.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This blog post aims to help familiarise you with some of the most common reasons for prescribing antibiotics in the paediatric emergency department. Antibiotic Use for Common Infections in Pediatric Emergency Departments: A Narrative Review. Davidson L, Foley DA, Clifford P, Blyth CC, Bowen AC, Hazelton B, et al.

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EMDocs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Correlation and agreement between arterial and venous blood gas analysis in patients with hypotension-an emergency department-based cross-sectional study. Int J Emerg Med. The role of venous blood gas in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Emerg Med. Emerg Med J.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 6, 2024

Answer : Cardiac Transplant Complications Epidemiology: There were over 3,000 heart transplants in North America in 2016. 15 Patients with a heart transplant can have ACS though they are unlikely to present with classic, crushing chest pain due to transplant-induced changes in cardiac innervation.

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A 67-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) in cardiac arrest. 8-12 A recent scoping review published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reviewed articles between 2016 and 2019, and found 18 observational studies, which failed to demonstrate sufficient evidence for widespread implementation of DSED.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

As recurrent ischaemia is the principle event reduced by early intervention in NSTE-ACS, these are important endpoint events occurring with delayed angiography and there is a consistent signal for harm now from two data sources.”[5] Int J Cardiol 2016 3. Kontos et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2022 Nov 15;80(20):1925-1960 2. Welsh et al.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

54 It is vital to consider dangerous epigastric pain mimickers like acute coronary syndrome (ACS), hepatobiliary disease, or pancreatitis. The Treatment of Acute Pain in the Emergency Department: A White Paper Position Statement Prepared for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. J Emerg Med. Acad Emerg Med.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Finally, much of this correlates well with The new Canadian Syncope Arrhythmia Risk Score , just published in 2016, results of which are given below in the Annotated Bibliography. 2) Boston syncope rule: J Emerg Med. The ROSE (Risk Stratification of syncope in the emergency department) Study. 2007 Oct; 33(3): 233–239.

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