American Ambulance Association

OCTOBER 9, 2023

CoAEMSP is Adding to its Site Visitor Cadre! Now Accepting Applications for Site Visitors The CoAEMSP is increasing its site visitor cadre and is seeking Paramedic educators and physicians to […] The post CoAEMSP Accepting Applications for Site Visitors appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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Ambulance Paramedic Emergency Medical Services 130

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Each time she moved her hand it caught my eye: the glint of her bejeweled fingers sharply contrasting with the spare gurney and paper-thin blanket. The fat heaviness of her rings seemed startling against her bony fingers, as if they should have shrunk in parallel with her collagen and fat. She fought against the technician removing her belongings while her protestations melded with my trauma survey.

Heart Attack 126

Heart Attack Life Support Emergency Department Ambulance 126

First 10 EM

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Is there anything emergency doctors love to debate more than airway? We have fancy new tools versus old school badassery. I sort of want to fit into both camps. I want to be the doc who has always succeeded with direct laryngoscopy, while also being young enough to adapt to new technology as it comes […] The post The DEVICE trial: Not as convincing as you think?

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EMS 116

EMergucate

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Question 1: We should consider ascending cholangitis in any patient with fever and features of obstructive jaundice till prove otherwise.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Author: Michael J. 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. He states that he recently moved to Texas from Colorado. His initial vital signs are 126/83 mmHg, heart rate of 104 beats per minute, respiratory rate of 32 breaths per minute, and saturation of 92% on room air.

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ED Life Support Advanced Life Support CPR 81

EMergucate

OCTOBER 9, 2023

22 year-old-girl from african origin presented with severe chest pain.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Clinical Case Your next patient is a Spanish-speaking 24-year-old female who begins by telling you that she is embarazada. Despite her bashfulness, you debate whether or not to call in the interpreter, since the waiting room is overflowing and between her broken English and your high-school Spanish you think you can get by without formal interpretation.

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Emergency Department E-9-1-1 ALS OR 64

Don't Forget the Bubbles

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What is incivility? Incivility is “ rude or disruptive behaviour that can result in psychological or physiological distress for the people involved.” Staff, patients, and relatives can all be affected in the hospital setting, especially in life-or-death situations. Does incivility exist in hospitals? I was unfamiliar with the word – incivility.

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ALS Emergency Department OR ED 116