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SGEM#250: Scribes – I Want to Break Free (from the EMR)

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: March 20th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Katie Walker is an emergency physician in Melbourne, Australia. Your medical team is great, but you […] The post SGEM#250: Scribes – I Want to Break Free (from the EMR) first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. If we have to use EMRs, how can we improve our productivity?

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SGEM#344: We Will…We Will Cath You – But should We After An OHCA Without ST Elevations?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He is interested and experienced in healthcare informatics, previously worked with ED-directed EMR design, and is involved in the New York City Health and Hospitals Healthcare Administration Scholars Program (HASP). She arrives in the emergency department (ED) with decreased level of consciousness and shock.

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SGEM#294: Blood Pressure – Do Better, Keep Rising with NorEpi

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Respir Crit Care Med 2019. Respir Crit Care Med 2019. Case: It’s another day in your emergency department (ED). The triage nurse places a 61 year-old-man with fever, hypotension, cough into the smallest room in the ED. You scan through the EMR and see the blood pressure is 60/40.

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Physical Examination as a Helpful Aid in Decision-Making in Challenging ECGs

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was contributed by Co-editor Emre Aslanger, an interventional cardiologist in Turkey. This 65-year old male patient with severe underlying coronary disease presented to the ED after receiving several ICD shocks.

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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

REBEL EM

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in emergency department (ED) volumes and lengths of stay. The result of this ED capacity strain and less than ideal patient to staff ratios has led to delays in interventions, treatments and care adjustments. Paper: Owyang CG, et al. J Crit Care. J Crit Care.

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

REBEL EM

PMID: 34697777 Clinical Question: In patients with moderate to severe alcohol withdrawal being discharged from the emergency department (ED), does treatment with phenobarbital alone and phenobarbital plus benzodiazepines compared to benzodiazepines alone decrease the odds of returning to the ED within 3 days after initial discharge?

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The Safety and Efficacy of Push Dose Vasopressors in Critically Ill Adults

REBEL EM

This study chose a relevant topic to analyze that could influence acute management in the ED and has a fairly larger sample size of patients to do so. The retrospective design of this study omitted assessment of ventricular dysrhythmias related to push dose pressor administration, as they were reliant on information in the EMR.