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Thematic analysis of 'Prevention of Future Deaths reports related to emergency departments in England and Wales 2013-2022

Emergency Medicine Journal

Since 2013, coroners in England and Wales have issued ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ (PFD) reports to individuals or organisations if, following an inquest, they believe action should be taken to prevent further avoidable deaths. Using the Judiciary (England and Wales) website, 2277 unique reports were extracted for July 2013 to.

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Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke

Pediatric EM Morsels

Let’s take a minute to digest a morsel on another significant complication – Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke in Children : Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke: Basics Pathophysiology (Menaa, 2013, Webb, 2013) SCD causes sickling shape of red blood cells Vaso-occlusive Cascade: Sickling → vascular endothelium destruction → cytokine/ immune cell (..)

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Video: How To Reduce A Hip Dislocation

The Trauma Pro

Originally shown at Trauma Education: The Next Generation 2013 in St. There are lots of little tips and tricks. In the next post, a novel variant of the hip reduction technique, the Captain Morgan.

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ECG Blog #402 — Will Adenosine Convert This?

Ken Grauer, MD

Figure-5: Pages 1 and 2 on Pros & Cons of using Adenosine ( excerpted from my ACLS-2013-ePub ). Figure-6: Pages 3 and 4 on Pros & Cons of using Adenosine ( excerpted from my ACLS-2013-ePub ). = See Figure-5 and -6 — for more on Adenosine.

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ECG Blog #393 — Why So Many Shapes?

Ken Grauer, MD

This highlights the pros and cons for using Adenosine — which I review in Figure-5 and Figure-6 ( excerpted from my ACLS-2013-ePub ). Figure-5: Pages 1 and 2 on Pros & Cons of using Adenosine ( excerpted from my ACLS-2013-ePub ). Figure-6: Pages 3 and 4 on Pros & Cons of using Adenosine ( excerpted from my ACLS-2013-ePub ).

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ECG Video Blog #404 (344) — Mobitz I, Mobitz II. or neither?

Ken Grauer, MD

Section 20 ( 54 pages = the " long " Answer ) from my ACLS-2013-Arrhythmias Expanded Version provides detailed discussion of WHAT the AV Blocks are — and what they are not ! Section 2F ( 6 pages = the " short " Answer ) from my ECG-2014 Pocket Brain book provides quick written review of the AV Blocks ( This is a free download ).

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Lacerations: The secrets they don’t want you to know

EM Ottawa

In 2013, in the United States there were 7 million visits to the emergency department (ED) for lacerations making up a total of 5.2% Lacerations are a common presenting complaint to emergency department. of ED visits(1).