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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

RebelEM

Take Home Points: There are many causes of neutropenia, chemotherapy being by far the most dangerous. Identify low risk patients and send them home with PO antibiotics and close oncology follow-up in conjunction with your oncologist. Volume 21, Issue 6, June 2015, Pages 583-590 Perron T, Emara M, Ahmed S. 2014;14:162.

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Choosing Wisely – Radiographs in children with respiratory symptoms

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Take home points References Allie EH, Dingle HE, Johnson WN, et al. Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN). Discussing the diagnosis and natural course of the illness may help foster a shared understanding of the limited role of imaging. This can be supported by patient information leaflets in multiple languages. Am J Emerg Med.

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Ultrasound of the Month: No Definitive Yolk Sac, No Definitive IUP!

Taming the SRU

She has taken a home pregnancy test which was positive, and her last menstrual period was over one month ago. After a short period of recovery in the hospital, she is discharged home in stable condition with follow-up with OBGYN. The Lancet, Volume 366, Issue 9485, 2005, Pages 583-591, ISSN 0140-6736, [link]. Ectopic pregnancy.

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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

Mind The Bleep

Input from physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists is necessary to evaluate the modifications needed to the home of patients and their relatives and the need for supported living. Also interviewed is the Frontier Chair Professor Olivier Piguet, a research group on FTLD.

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Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me

Sensible Medicine

” She had the nurse page me to her bedside. I have come to accept people going outside to smoke while they are in the hospital, running home between antibiotic infusions to feed their cat, even having their usual glass of wine with dinner during a long hospitalization (though I recently got into trouble for this one).

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EM Mindset: A Woman in the Emergency Department – by a Feminist

SheMD

Originally posted at EMDocs.net with direct link to page here. In house day-care facilities, flexible scheduling, and easily accessed, non-punitive sick call are all progressive programs that allow for female physicians to balance their work and home commitments. I was young and single and he was married.

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Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Sensible Medicine

Should I do research this summer or get a job? [1] In November of that next year, he paged me one morning. I was thrilled, years later, when I came home to a poster tube containing the drawing that hangs in my office. What reliably follows is a conversation with a smart, earnest, mature, and absurdly accomplished young adult.