Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Smith comment: Go here for a comprehensive blog post on syncope and link to the most detailed version of the Canadian Syncope Rule: Emergency Department Syncope Workup. To EMPHASIZE: What follows are advanced concepts that extend well beyond what is needed for appropriate emergency management of today's patient.

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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). Additionally, the pre-hospital setting may lack external validity to the emergency department. Am J Hematol.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

A 24-year-old male with history of quadriplegia and traumatic brain injury presents to the emergency department with hemorrhage in his oral cavity and blood from his tracheostomy tube. He has had a tracheostomy for approximately 15 months since his injury. Blood is spurting from the orifice of the tube.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

She presents the emergency department with another seizure for more than five minutes and has not been aborted with two doses of midazolam intramuscularly.You know the guidelines recommend phenytoin as a second line agent, but the junior doctor asks you if levetiracetam would work faster with less side effects.

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AAEM RSA

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fournier's gangrene and its emergency management. West J Emerg Med. Inadequate Sensitivity of Laboratory Risk Indicator to Rule Out Necrotizing Fasciitis in the Emergency Department. West J Emerg Med. Sorensen MD, Krieger JN, Rivara FP, et al. Fournier's Gangrene: population based epidemiology and outcomes.

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EMDocs

JUNE 3, 2023

Vertical shear pelvic injury: evaluation, management, and fixation strategies. Effect of Early Pelvic Binder Use in the Emergency Management of Suspected Pelvic Trauma: A Retrospective Cohort Study [published correction appears in Int J Environ Res Public Health. Int Orthop. 2018;42(11):2663-2674. 2022 May 30;19(11):].

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 27, 2025

We dont often cover gynaecological presentations in the emergency department and most chronic gynaecological problems go through the primary care referral pathway. However, CT scans remain largely more obtainable in a time critical case, in an emergency department setting. Pediatr Emerg Care, 1;38(6):e1332-e1335.

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