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REBEL EM Book Club – MicroSkills

REBEL EM

She’s helped to redesign the built environment of a Harvard ICU and an infectious diseases unit in Malawi. Her new book, MicroSkills : Small Actions, Big Impact is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2024. Her new book, MicroSkills : Small Actions, Big Impact is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2024.

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Tranq dope (fentanyl-xylazine combination): A new horizon in opioid withdrawal treatment

ALiEM

Case A patient arrives via EMS from the bus station complaining of fever, vomiting, and back pain. Our experience: It was not long ago that we instructed our staff that: ‘COWS >8, give ’em 8 (mg of buprenorphine).’ 2023 [book]. They report insufflating ‘a bundle’ of tranq dope per day. 2023 Aug 1;89(2):231.

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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

REBEL EM

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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Dr. Elsburgh Clarke Was Among First to Specialize in Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

The specialty, he said, spoke to his interest in surgery and EMS in a way that family medicine did not. A closer look, though, also shows the technology of the daya bulky, two-way radio for communicating with EMS, metal gurneys, glass saline bottles, and portable ECG monitors the size of a small shopping cart. I like the excitement.

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Prep for DNB Emergency Medicine (India) - by Manasa Seshadri

EM Didactic

I cleared my DNB EM Practical Exam and with that, I have successfully completed my Post Graduation in Emergency Medicine. Most of you are likely to belong to the above mentioned group, given the current political debacle and bureaucracy trends in EM in our country, which hopefully will change in years to come. It is quite a lot.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 061 | Asthma

Emergency Medicine Ireland

I am guilty of over teaching this myself having delivered not one , but 2 talks on the subject, and even a prior tasty morsel of EM on the subject. I suspect that’s largely due to better access and provision of primary care but there remains a cohort of fairly brittle folk out there who will occasional crop up in resus or the ICU.

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Less is More. Again: Speed of IV Fluid Administration in Pancreatitis (WATERFALL Trial)

REBEL EM

For More on This Topic Checkout: CorePendium: Pancreatic Disease Internet Book of Critical Care: Acute Pancreatitis EMCrit: Ep333 – The State of Fluids Show with the EMCrit Core Team The Bottom Line: Aggressive or Moderate Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis References: de-Madaria E et al. cc/kg/hour.

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