NAEMSP
APRIL 18, 2025
Author : Katie Stuart MD; Washington University Emergency Medicine Residency Editors : Sarah Fabiano MD, FACEP, FAAEM & Michael DeFilippo DO You are a second-year emergency medicine resident physician doing a ride along with a helicopter-based EMS (HEMS) agency. You are dispatched to the scene of a golf cart versus tree. The air crew successfully identifies a safe landing place near where the ambulance is staged.
Peter Canning
APRIL 18, 2025
The call is for a seizure. A 9-year-old boy with epilepsy falls off the couch and is observed seizing, with full tonic-clonic activity. His mom shouts for the boys older sister to call 911, and then she goes to her purse and takes out the medicine his doctor prescribed for him. She sticks the nozzle of the device in the boy’s nose and pushes the plunder.
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EMDocs
APRIL 18, 2025
Authors: Lloyd Tannenbaum, MD (EM Attending Physician, APD, Geisinger Wyoming Valley, PA) // Reviewer: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Hello and welcome back to ECG Pointers, a series designed to make you more confident in your ECG interpretations. This week, we feature a post from Dr. Tannenbaums ECG Teaching Cases , a free ECG resource. Please check it out.
JEMS
APRIL 18, 2025
TheMonongalia County Technical Education Center is considering eliminating the emergency medical services program.
American Burn Association
APRIL 18, 2025
Categories Advocacy Burn News MAC Spotlight Media Member Services Member Spotlight Organization News Prevention Quality Care Research Return to News & Activities As Congress begins work on the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) budget, the American Burn Association (ABA) is encouraging lawmakers to increase funding for the Military Burn Research Program (MBRP) to $12 milliona $2 million increase over last years request.
JEMS
APRIL 18, 2025
A cable car carrying tourists south of Naples crashed to the ground Thursday after a cable snapped, killing at least four people and critically injuring one, officials said.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 18, 2025
Written by Hans Helseth, with edits and comments by Smith and Grauer An 84 year old man with chronic hypertension and CKD presented to a primary care clinic. He reported fatigue and positional lightheadedness over the past couple of weeks. He had no symptoms when seated, but felt lightheaded when standing and walking. He played a round of golf a week prior and felt an episode of chest pain during the round, which spontaneously resolved.
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Peter Canning
APRIL 18, 2025
The latest CDC provisional overdose fatality data is out and continues to show nationwide decline in fatal overdoses through October of 2024, down 26.5% over the last 12 months and 27.6% from its June 2023 12-month high, declining to a level equivalent to May 2020 (shortly after COVID hit). It should be noted that more recent Connecticut data through December 2024 shows significant statewide decline through the end of the year, but early statewide data from January through March 2025 shows a tro
JEMS
APRIL 18, 2025
Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nations high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation.
JEMS
APRIL 18, 2025
One person was killed when a school bus carrying students fromPine Ridge Middle SchoolinLexington Countyblew a tire and flipped.
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