Blast crisis is a rare, life-threatening emergency requiring early recognition and aggressive resuscitation.
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Emergency Management of Blast Crisis
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Post-It Pearls 3.0
Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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Parenteral Ketorlac Dosing
Thanks to Salim Rezaie for guest editing this post which is cross-posted on REBEL EM.
Ketorolac is a commonly used parenteral analgesic in the Emergency Department (ED) for a variety of indications ranging from musculoskeletal injuries to renal colic. This non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) is available in oral, intranasal and parenteral routes.
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Scaphoid Fractures
Scaphoid fractures are common, easily missed and missed fractures have significant morbidity. We review identification and management.
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Post-It Pearls 2.0
Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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ED POCUS in OHCA – The REASON Study
Special thank you to Salim Rezaie for guest editing this post.
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects > 300,000 people in the US each year and most of these patients are transported to the Emergency Department (ED) for further care. Currently, survival to discharge sits at around 8%. Over the last decade, it has become clear that the keys to improved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and return of neurologic function (RONF) are early CPR,
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Severe Hyponatremia
This week we review the presentation and management of severe hyponatremia.
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