Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 19, 2024

Well-designed multicentre large studies in children were warranted; cue Leonard et al. Children in the validation cohort were admitted to the intensive care unit or operating room less frequently than those in the derivation cohort. In practice, questions remain about who applies the CDR and the inter-rater reliability.

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REBEL EM

JUNE 8, 2023

Paper: Singer S, et al. References: Singer S, et al. PMID: 36108346 Cole JB, et al. PMID: 31270748 Maheshwari K, et al. PMID: 29872882 Jones AE, et al. PMID: 17035422 Holler JG, et al. PMID: 25789927 Schwartz MB, et al. The safety and efficacy of push dose vasopressors in critically ill adults.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 12, 2024

PMID: 36038001 Levi TM, et al. PMID: 24553510 Iacone R, et al. The authors of this study sought to test the hypothesis that intravenous amino acid therapy would lead to a lower occurrence of postoperative AKI when compared to placebo. Paper: Landoni G. The PROTECTION trial. The PROTECTION trial. Contemp Clin Trials. Epub 2022 Aug 28.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

In our case, the patient had a CT of the head, cervical spine, and chest, abdomen, and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrated a C2, C7 compression fracture with significant bowel edema (Figure 4), and was taken to the operating room for left arm disarticulation, left below knee amputation and right above knee amputation.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 27, 2023

Paper: Owyang CG, et al. There may have very well been a policy where only RTs can make changes to a ventilator after an order was placed to ensure accurate documentation. Unfortunately, its not clear whether the documentation came from RTs or ED providers. REFERENCES: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network et al.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Posterior – Shortened, adducted, internally rotated 5,6 Anterior – Shortened, abducted, externally rotated 5,6 As with all dislocations, perform and document distal neurovascular exam before and after management. 8 Perform and document distal neurovascular exam. Parvizi J, Tan TL, Goswami K, et al. Hospitals, 2018.

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AAEM RSA

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Introduction: While cases of genital gangrene were documented as early as 980 CE, the condition we know today as FG was coined in the 1880’s by French venerologist, Jean Alfred Fournier. A thorough physical exam, imaging, and laboratory studies can assist, but definitive diagnosis can only be made in the operating room.

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