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On November 14, 2024, ILCOR released their latest recommendations for adult and pediatric basic and advanced life support. Theres a lot to unpack, and Ill be highlighting the key changes during our upcoming webinar. If you havent registered yet, follow the CLICK HERE and join us for an in-depth review. What consistently intrigues me about these guidelines is how the recommendations are determined: which studies make the cut, which are set aside, and which never see the light of day.
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St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Day 1 review from the London Conference 2024 with Zaf Qasim. Also check out our podcasts from the same conference on our podcast channel. #FOAMed The post Talking trauma – London Trauma Conference Day 1 appeared first on St.Emlyn's.
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Georgina Beech, Leon Lam, Jennifer Davidson and Parvathy Suresh Kochath CT Case 095 A 66-year-old lady presents with left sided facial droop and hemiparesis, headache and vomiting.
Which elements of your current pre-shift preparation contribute most to your mental clarity and performance, and what new practices might further optimize your readiness? With interruptions shown to increase task errors and decision fatigue, how can you strike a balance between being approachable to colleagues and safeguarding your focus for patient care?
We're in the last two weeks of our spring course!! All we have left are a couple lectures, a final practical, and a final exam. We implemented two big additions to this class: office hours and a competency protocol. They go hand in hand. We required our students to both score at least a 70% on every exam as well as demonstrate and adequate understanding of the patient assessment for each practical.
In this Global EM post we provide examples of Global EM partnerships and tools for developing these partnerships to foster global solidarity in improving emergency medicine as a specialty and help EM societies not only strengthen their systems but also enhance global health outcomes. The post Global EM 7 Global Emergency Medicine Partnerships appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
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Written by Willy Frick A woman in her 70s is hospitalized with undifferentiated shock after being found down at home. Her family had not heard from her and called EMS. Paramedics found her bradycardic, hypotensive, and tachypneic. She was resuscitated and admitted to ICU for presumed sepsis. Several days into hospitalization, she continued to have occasional episodes of sinus rhythm and sinus bradycardia with periods of Mobitz I AV block and 2:1 block.
Another month, another set of articles. Perhaps some are useful. Perhaps some will guide your practice. At least one should completely blow your mind. More research was needed Taccone FS, Rynkowski Bittencourt C, Mller K, Lormans P, Quintana-Daz M, Caricato A, Cardoso Ferreira MA, Badenes R, Kurtz P, Sndergaard CB, Colpaert K, Petterson L, Quintard […] The post The December 2024 Research Roundup appeared first on First10EM.
Two little boys, how lovely! And so close in age, theyll be tearing around getting muddy and kicking balls together. How many times did I hear comments like that? And how much further from the truth could they have been? I do have two boys. That much is true, although theyre not little anymore. My oldest, Lachie, is fifteen, and my youngest, Sam, is nearly fourteen.
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