Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 28, 2023

Management must be multidisciplinary involving anaesthetics, paediatric retrieval service/paediatric intensive care, ENT and oncology teams (as well as the cardiothoracic surgery team – not always available). Five-year-old Ginny presents to the Emergency Department with a syncopal episode. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed.

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EMDocs

AUGUST 22, 2024

6 24% more likely to return to the ED within 72 hours of their initial visit in an urban ED with >50,000 annual visits. 6 24% more likely to return to the ED within 72 hours of their initial visit in an urban ED with >50,000 annual visits. One cohort study in a public ED found that 84.5%

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The risk of a biphasic reaction is what keeps patients in the ED while being observed for a set period of time. Thus, if the patient has complete resolution of symptoms after appropriate treatment of anaphylaxis, there is no set time period for monitoring in the ED. This is called a biphasic reaction.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

By Sofiya Diurba MD, reviewed by Meyers, Grauer A woman in her 50s with PMH known RBBB and prior syncopal events presents to the ED for five syncopal events over the last 24 hours. This is her first ECG in the ED: What do you see? Each event is associated with a prodrome of mild substernal CP, SOB, and “brain fog.”

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

This single-centre academic urban institution in the United States (US) undertook a 10-year retrospective observational study of paediatric intubation and bougie use in their emergency department (ED). However, 273 were excluded, as 173 were intubated outside of ED, and 95 had missing datasets. Am J Hematol.

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EMDocs

JUNE 3, 2023

The nuances of fracture patterns and delineating mechanically unstable pelvic fractures from stable ones is less important to the ED. This is less critical in ED management of the unstable pelvic fracture, as the optimal site for identification of rectal or vaginal tears is the operating room.

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AAEM RSA

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The sensitivity of these scores range, but they cannot exclude FG diagnosis and may have lower sensitivity when used for prediction in ED patient populations. Fournier's gangrene and its emergency management. West J Emerg Med. West J Emerg Med. fold increased odds of mortality, respectively. 2009;181(5):2120-2126.

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