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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Serious Pain in the Neck

ALiEM

An otherwise healthy 34-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with two weeks of anterior neck pain. Symptoms began with several days of pain in his mandibular molars, progressing to pain and swelling in the neck. In the last several days, the patient developed warmth and redness in the chest wall associated with subjective fever and chills.

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Release | EMS Heroes To Be Honored in Washington, DC as 2023 Stars of Life

American Ambulance Association

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amanda Riordan 703-615-4492 ariordan@ambulance.org EMS Heroes To Be Honored in Washington, DC as 2023 Stars of Life Washington, DC—This November, the American Ambulance Association (AAA) will […] The post Release | EMS Heroes To Be Honored in Washington, DC as 2023 Stars of Life appeared first on American Ambulance Association.

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Association Between Levels of Intensive Care and In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Sepsis Stratified by Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Scores

University of Maryland Department of Emergency Med

Settings: Retrospective study of a national inpatient database (Japan). Participants: All patients who were admitted between.

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Repost from Saturday Oct 14: The Queen gets it right with a better image

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is a case I posted Saturday, October 14. This ECG was texted to me after the fact with no information. What do you think? This is the ECG that I used for the post. It is high quality screenshot of a pdf: I had said that the Queen said this is Not OMI with low confidence However , the image that had been texted to me and submitted to the Queen was not this one above.

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7 Most Common EMT Emergencies During the Summer

Unitek EMT

Learn how EMTs address the symptoms associated with common summer emergencies. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) stand as frontline responders in the realm of healthcare, offering a pivotal role in addressing a spectrum of emergencies. Their expertise and immediate response capabilities can make a significant difference in preserving lives and reducing the severity of injuries.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 074 | Dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re going to verge into challenging territory for an audio podcast in that we’re going to the discuss the very visual topic of dynamic LV outflow tract obstruction. This is something fairly dependent on echocardiography for diagnosis which as you can imagine translates poorly to audio format.