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Systemic Steroids: An ED Focused Overview

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Yoo, MD (Assistant Professor/Core Faculty, San Antonio, TX) // Reviewed by Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Case An 18-year-old man with a history of asthma and medication noncompliance presents to the emergency department (ED) with acute onset shortness of breath. References 1) Liu D, Ahmet A, Ward L, et al. Which one do you select?

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Spicy Bites - Snake Envenomation

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Rattlesnake Envenomation Treatment & Management: Prehospital Care, Emergency Department Care, Consultations.” First Aid and Pre-Hospital Management of Venomous Snakebites.” Coral Snake Envenomation Treatment & Management: Prehospital Care, Emergency Department Care.” Communications Biology , vol.

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Cardiac Rhythms/ECG Module

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Prioritise listening to the first 30 minutes which given a good overview of aetiology and treatment (53 mins) Basics of cardiac rhythm problems in the ED Palpitations are a common reason for children to present to the emergency department, the majority of these will be benign from a cardiac perspective and instead related to stress or anxiety.

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From the President’s Desk: HEMS in Cork

Irish College of Paramedics

Crewing Models: There are varying models of pre-hospital care ranging from paramedic provision of care through the mix of First Aid (Tanigawa and Tanaka 2006) Basic Life Support (BLS), immediate care, Advanced Life Support (ALS) and the many associated specialist paramedicine grades. 2000, Stiell et al.

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EM@3AM: High Priority Fungal Pathogens and Empiric Treatment in the ED

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. – Consider empiric antifungals in the following patient populations when critically ill HIV/AIDS patients, solid organ transplant patients, and cancer patients with prolonged neutropenia (<500 neutrophils/mm 3 , 10 days) (higher quality evidence). doi:10.2217/fmb-2022-0269 [link] Fang W, Wu J, Cheng M, et al. Candidiasis.

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Hand Examination & Pathology

Don't Forget the Bubbles

We will focus on the most important structures when assessing paediatric hands in the emergency department. Finger injuries caused by fingers being caught in closing doors are extremely common presentations to the paediatric emergency department. It additionally has an intricate blood and nerve supply.

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