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Popular Antiobesity Medications Bring New Challenges to Emergency Physicians

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One side effect of this medication is that it can reduce the absorption of antiepileptic medications such as valproate, vigabatrin, and lamotrigine and reduce their plasma concentration, thus putting patients taking these medications at higher risk of seizure. ACS chemical neuroscience molecule spotlight on Contrave. ACS Chem Neurosci.

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ToxCard: Crotalid Envenomation Part 2 – CroFab vs. AnaVip: What’s the Difference?

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Plasma half-life of the F(ab’) 2 antivenom is significantly longer at 5.5 Accessed May 7, 2022. Accessed May 7, 2022. link] Li Z, Krippendorff BF, Sharma S, Walz AC, Lavé T, Shah DK. Accessed May 7, 2022. Accessed May 7, 2022. 5 Figure 1. Table 1: Comparison of F(ab) and F(ab’) 2 antivenoms.

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Penetrating chest trauma

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This was a randomised controlled multisite study comparing resuscitation of trauma patients requiring massive transfusion using either 1:1::1 or 1:1:2 ratios of platelets to plasma to red blood cells. 2022 Dec;57(12):986-993. Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR) Trial: design, rationale and implementation.

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ToxCard: Organic Mercury Poisoning

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7 We are commonly taught that metals are not amenable to treatment with activated charcoal (AC).However, In short, there is not a whole lot of evidence to support this, but if patient has had a recent ingestion and is not altered, you can consider gastrointestinal decontamination with AC. 2022, February 25). Resources: S.

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