St. Emlyn's

MAY 4, 2025

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This is the sixth in a series of blog posts on new research in emergency toxicology. The last post was about ketamine analgesia in chronic opioid users and can be […] The post Acute behavioural disturbances: olanzapine or haloperidol? appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 4, 2025

This was contributed by Hans Helseth (he will start medical school soon). With edits and additions by Smith and Grauer. A 75 year old man with hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department by EMS for 1.5 hours of chest pain with vomiting. Paramedics administered 3 doses of sublingual nitro and 4 baby aspirin, neither of which relieved the pain.

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JEMS

MAY 4, 2025

Four teens three girls and a boy, all from Wichita were injured in a shooting Saturday morning at an apartment complex near the Keeper of the Plains, Wichita police spokespersonKristopher Gupilansaid.

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Life in the Fastlane

MAY 4, 2025

Michael Gibbs MD Neuroimaging Cases 009 Neurocysticercosis. Third edition in our Neuroimaging case study series with guest editors Drs.

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JEMS

MAY 4, 2025

Thirteen students riding in a school bus onInterstate 95late Thursday were taken toWatervillehospitals after they reported feeling ill, apparently from fumes caused by an overheated bus engine.

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Peter Canning

MAY 4, 2025

Medetomidine, an animal sedative, appears to be replacing xylazine as a significant adulterant in fentanyl and perhaps other drugs. According to reports from Philadelphia, one of the areas where xylazine first gained prominence, medetomidine was in 87% of samples of fentanyl in November 2024 compared to just 42% of samples which contained xylazine, while at the beginning of the year xylazine was in 100% of the samples.

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