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Elbow Dislocations

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PMID: 32644703 Robinson PM, Griffiths E, Watts AC. PMID: 27227986 Glover NM, Black AC, Murphy PB. PMID: 31082090 Post Peer Reviewed By: Anand Swaminathan MD, MPH (Insta @EMSwami) The post Elbow Dislocations appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan–. 2023 Nov 5.

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What can you find with continuous ST monitoring in the ED?

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This dynamic change is diagnostic of ACS. Cardiology was consulted and agreed that his history was high risk for ACS and a next-day angiogram was merited. This was also non-diagnostic for OMI, although the dynamic changes are diagnostic of ACS. ECG at time 82 minutes: What do you think?

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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

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Paper: Alwang AK, Law AC, Klings ES, Cohen RT, Bosch NA. PMID: 28106307 Alwang AK, Law AC, Klings ES, Cohen RT, Bosch NA. appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. To assess the clinical impact and relevance of these concerns, Alwang et al. performed the retrospective cohort study below ( Alwang 2024 ).

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Atrial Fib with RVR. What treatment? Then SVT. Is it sinus? Use ultrasound and Lewis leads!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

3) ACS with possible additional ischemia from atrial fib with RVR 4) Hemorrhage/dehydration/sepsis/etc., I was fairly certain that this was a type II (demand ischemia) MI and that this patient was not having ACS. He did not have ACS. Not all myocardial infarction is due to ACS 2. He was treated for urosepsis and did well.

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Is this STEMI or NSTEMI? Neither. It is OMI.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

ACS is dynamic. interesting spontaneous reperfusion case 1413140 prehospital STEMI first ED ECG is here, with 3/10 pain: But this is the same patient just 10 minutes before, with 7/10 pain Isn't it ridiculous to say that the patient has both a STEMI and an NSTEMI? It can't be given one static name. Now the patient has one disease: OMI.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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World Bank Blogs. link] Hummell AC, Cummings M. A qualitative study on African immigrant and refugee families experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba, Canada: its not easy! Int J Equity Health. 2017;16(1):5. doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0510-x Verme P. March 28, 2023. Accessed October 5, 2024. 2022;37(1):41-49.

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First10EM Journal Club: January 2025

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Full blog post here. PMID: 39461792 Bottom line: The WOMAN 2 trial is a large double-blind RCT that shows no benefit of TXA in the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, which fits with all of the existing literature demonstrating no role for TXA in the management of postpartum hemorrhage. Emerg Med J. 2019 Jan;36(1):2-3. Epub 2018 Oct 25.

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