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Maintaining Resilience and Mental Health in the EMS Profession

NCOAE

It’s Getting Worse Instead of Better Thanks to high healthcare costs and doctor shortages, many people don’t have access to a general practitioner , so guess who they call when they have nowhere else to turn, especially in the event of a mental health emergency? And those types of emergencies are on the rise.

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What the Emergency Clinician Must Know about Remote Monitors in Heart Failure

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10 This procedure has well-described rare complications including infection, blood loss, allergic reaction, arrhythmia, pneumothorax if approaching via the internal jugular vein, embolization of the device, and pulmonary artery perforation or dissection. 8 The device itself is 2 x 2.5 Circulation: Heart Failure.

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Cetirizine Vs Diphenhydramine For the Treatment of Acute Urticaria in the ED

REBEL EM

Background: Diphenhydramine, a first-generation antihistamine, is the most common pharmacologic agent used to treat acute allergic reactions. T5 (3.9%) patients with adverse events were reported in the IV Cetirizine group compared to 18 (3.9%) in the IV diphenhydramine group. Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio.

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REBEL Core Cast 108.0 – Angioedema

REBEL EM

Urticaria and pruritus = MAST CELL mediated, which is treated like a standard allergic reaction. patients that take ACE inhibitors (but 20-30% of all angioedema presentations to the Emergency Department) 3 times more common in Black Americans ( Kostis 2005 ) 0.01 Emergency Medicine Practice. EBMedicine.net.

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The PALACE Trial: Direct Oral PCN Challenge in Patients with Low-Risk PCN Allergy?

REBEL EM

Additionally, there was no difference between immediate or delayed adverse events reported by day 5. randomization) as per protocol (i.e. eligibility to screened ratio) Feasibility of recruitment defined as proportion of patients consenting to participate in the study protocol from eligible patients (i.e. randomization) as per protocol (i.e.