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ALiEM AIR Series | Infectious Disease 2023 Module

ALiEM

Welcome to the AIR Infectious Disease Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Social Media Index, the ALiEM AIR Team is proud to present the highest quality online content related to related to infectious diseases in the Emergency Department. 6 blog posts met our standard of online excellence and were approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board.

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Perez and Finstad Push Medic to Paramedic Provision

American Ambulance Association

This content is for AAA members only. Please either Log In or Join! The post Perez and Finstad Push Medic to Paramedic Provision appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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EMCrit Wee – The Physiology of Oxygenation with Alex of Deranged Physiology

EMCrit Project

So we used a mean guy on twitter to spur a discussion on Oxygenation Physiology and talk about when PaO2s are necessary and you can't use the pulse ox (hint: not often). My discussant is Alex Yartsev. EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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CMS Releases Advance Copy of CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

American Ambulance Association

This content is for AAA members only. Please either Log In or Join! The post CMS Releases Advance Copy of CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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52 in 52 – #39: DAWN – Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct

EMDocs

Welcome back to the “52 in 52” series. This collection of posts features recently published must-know articles. Today we look at the DAWN trial. Author: Austin G. MacDonald, MD (Resident, Emergency Medicine Physician, San Antonio, TX); Brannon L Inman, MD (Critical Care Fellow, Orlando, FL) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Thrombectomy 6 to 24 Hours after Stroke with a Mismatch between Deficit and Infarct AKA: The “DAWN” Trial Clinical question: Does th

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AAA Encourages CMS to Consider Revised Innovation Model for Treatment in Place

American Ambulance Association

Washington, DC— While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided to end the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model two years early on December 31, 2023, […] The post AAA Encourages CMS to Consider Revised Innovation Model for Treatment in Place appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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Don’t Become Obsolete: The EM Physician’s Fight Against Procedural Decay

REBEL EM

INTRODUCTION You’re moonlighting in a remote access hospital. EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. You can hear the tension in their voice. They’re rolling up now. The patient is horribly burned. She was smoking with her home O2 on and has severe mixed partial and full thickness burns to the chest, neck, face, and airway.

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Should blood cultures be drawn in a child with fever and lower extremity pain?

University of Maryland Department of Emergency Med

This was a cross sectional review of 698 patients ages 1 year to 18 years who presented to a tertiary care center with fever of at least 38 de.

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