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Optimizing Feedback To Referring Hospitals

The Trauma Pro

JACS 220(1):99-104, 2015. You may or may not be able to link them into your specific electronic medical record, but you can certainly send out informational letters and emails! Reference: Optimizing feedback from a designated Level I trauma/burn center to referring hospitals.

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Are There Really More Missed Injuries After Hours?

The Trauma Pro

Injury 2015, in press. In the next post, Ill review strategies to decrease the incidence of missed injury. Reference: Office hours vs after-hours: do presentation times affect the rate of missed injuries in trauma patients?

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Clinical Conundrum: Should We Always Treat Fever in Patients with Sepsis?

RebelEM

One side argues that fever places additional physiological stress on patients, who are already ill ( Young 2015 ). On the other hand, fever may serve as a protective role by enhancing immune cell function and inhibiting pathogen growth and spread ( Young 2015 ). NEJM 2015; 373(23): 2215-24. PMID: 26436473 Schortgen F et al.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Pneumomediastinum

Taming the SRU

2015 Feb;7(Suppl 1):S44-9. 2015 May;166(5):1317-1317.e1. 2015 Mar;16(2):321-4. 2015 Summer;19(3):e122-4. 2015 Aug;150(8):757-62. Pneumomediastinum. J Thorac Dis. PMC free article] [PubMed] 4. Pneumomediastinum after nose blowing. Reha J, Davis P. West J Emerg Med. PMC free article] [PubMed] 10. PubMed] 12.

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ECG Blog #434 — WHY Did this Patient Arrest?

Ken Grauer, MD

The cause of the abnormal baseline deflections seen in Figure-2 is most likely muscle tremor artifact ( See Bouthillet T — ACLS Med Training, Dec, 2015 ). PEARL # 2: We can tell at a glance in Figure-1 — that the "culprit" causing the artifact in today's ECG is the RA ( R ight A rm ) extremity.

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Patient Centred Team Based Critical Care In Austere Environments : what to do when Gigli Saw fails during prehospital amputation underwater

PHARM

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REBEL Core Cast 132.0 – Recent-Onset AFib

RebelEM

Ann Emerg Med 2015; 65(5): 532-9. Ann Emerg Med 2015; 65(5): 532-9. J Emerg Med 2015. Cardioversion recommendations exclude patients with recent strokes or valvular heart disease. REBEL Core Cast 132.0 – Recent-Onset AFib Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast. Read More Atzema CL, Barrett TW. JACC 2003; 41: 255-62.