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You are asked to review a pregnant patient (30 weeks gestation) who has been diagnosed with pneumonia. The referring doctor is concerned that she has a metabolic acidosis. She is currently receiving…
We cover arterial line insertion, with a guide made in partnership with a recent publication in Emergency medicine Australasia. Thanks to Clare Armstrong, Ben Butson and Paul Kwa for their expert input.
Riccardo Galeazzi was a distinguished Italian orthopedic surgeon and academic with nearly 150 publications. Most of his work focused on scoliosis, skeletal tuberculosis, acute arthritis in the infants and juvenile osteochondrosis.
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Here’s another case from Medical Malpractice Insights – A semi-retired vacationing neurologist with a prior history of a “spine infection” develops neck pain a few hours after a 15-mile bike ride. He attributes the pain to neck extension during the ride, but 2 days later…
IM epinephrine in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; the PECARN c-spine rule; IV and oral contrast for appendicitis; crinkly paper on our stretchers for infection control; what HAPPENs when you use a crappy surrogate outcome?; bad takes on prophylactic antibiotics for dog bites; mastering the bougie; a paradigm change in medicine; too tall, got cancer…
A common Emergency Department (ED) presentation, vaginal bleeding in pregnancy affects approximately 30% of pregnancies in the 1st trimester and 1-2% in the 2nd trimester. About half of these result in pregnancy loss. Here we will use cases to highlight an ED approach to stable vaginal bleeding in pregnancy…
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