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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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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

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Over the past few years, there has been an increase in emergency department (ED) volumes and lengths of stay. The effect of emergency department crowding on lung-protective ventilation utilization for critically ill patients. 2022 Feb 8; PMID: 35156050 Higgins TL et al. 2022 Feb 24;7(1):29603. J Crit Care.

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

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Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Sep 5. 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. Clinical Bottom Line: Acute hypotension must be treated emergently in order to decrease morbidity and mortality.

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting." Another ECG was recorded 5 minutes later just before arrival at the hospital: Similar The patient was transported to a nearby suburban hospital with PCI capabilities while my partner cared for her.

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Additionally, low ionized calcium levels have been correlated with increasing mortality in sepsis and other critical illnesses in adults and children (Bora, Ramazan, Oznur, Emre, & Basar, 2021), (Sanchez, et al., Vallentin, Povlsen, Granfeldt, Terkelsen, & Andersen, 2022).

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

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Reliance on a billing dataset, instead of EMR or prospective data, likely affected the quality of outcome measurement. Doing so can help avoid fundamental design errors that might otherwise limit or bias observational data ( Hernn 2022 ). Hospital-free days did not account for hospital days during readmissions.

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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.) Recently, observational data in intubated asthma patients has shown higher mortality rates associated with smaller ETTs (Kashiouris 2022) with the mortality of a 6.5 et al (2022). Apfelbaum, J.

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