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ALiEM Cards: Maternal Cardiac Arrest
by Jeremy Voros, MD
Aug 08, 2018
Maternal cardiac arrest is a low-frequency, high-risk pregnancy complication with 2 lives at stake. Incidence is approximately 1 in 12,000 to 50,00...
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ALiEM Cards: Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is an oncologic emergency characterized by life-threatening metabolic disturbances. Although it is most frequently assoc...
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ALiEM Cards: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – Berlin Definition
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a complex, life-threatening form of respiratory failure. It is responsible for almost 75,000 annual d...
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ALiEMCards: Tranexamic Acid
Tranexamic acid (TXA) is a synthetic form of the amino acid lysine that binds to receptors on plasmin and prevents it from breaking down fibrin clo...
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ALiEMCards: Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is on a spectrum of pregnancy related illness that includes eclampsia and HELLP syndrome (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, Low Plate...
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ALiEMCards: The Red and Painful Eye
There is significant overlap among conditions that cause a red, painful, or red AND painful eye. Having trouble keeping them all straight? Need a r...
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ALiEM Cards: Keeping the Sepsis Definitions and Criteria Straight
In 2015 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted the Sepsis Bundle Project, which is a quality improvement project aimed at red...
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Using Eye Anatomy to Recall Key Diagnoses: The Rule of 2’s
Our latest ALiEM Card introduces the “Rule of 2’s,” a simple method that uses eye anatomy to help you recall some of the major ocular diagnoses! It...
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Announcing the new ALiEM Cards website
The PV Cards are getting a new name and their own website! Beginning today you can find the complete point-of-care reference library on its own sta...
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PV Card: Laceration Repair and Sutures – A cheat sheet guide
Laceration repair and suturing are foundational skills for the Emergency Department. This pocket card serves as a quick reference guide for clinici...
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PV Card: Elbow Injuries
Elbow injuries are a common presentation to the Emergency Department. This pocket card reviews some the imaging, acute management, and some pearls...
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PV Card: LVAD Complications
Patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) often cause much anxiety amongst providers in the emergency department. This is understandabl...
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PV Card: Knee Injuries | Quick Reference Guide
Orthopedic injuries are commonly managed in the emergency department. Often a quick bedside reference card is needed to remind the clinician about ...
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PV Card: Hip Injuries | Quick Reference Guide
Orthopedic injuries are commonly managed in the emergency department. Often a quick bedside reference card is needed to remind the clinician about ...
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PV Card: Algorithm for acute bronchiolitis management
Bronchiolitis is a common lower respiratory tract infection in children less than 2 years old, and especially in those 3-6 months old. In a collab...
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PV Card: Introduction to ED Charting and Coding
What makes a good chart? How do you write a good chart quickly? How about a good, efficient, billable chart? On average, residents and practicing p...
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PV Card: Ankle and Hindfoot Fractures | Quick Reference Guide
Orthopedic fractures and injuries are commonly managed in the emergency department. Often a quick bedside reference card is needed to remind the cl...
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PV Card: Adult scaphoid fracture
What is the most commonly fractured carpal bone in adults? It’s the scaphoid bone. As a bonus it has the dreaded complication of avascular necrosis...
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PV Card: Initial Pain Medication Options in the Emergency Department
The emergency department (ED) manages acute pain on a daily basis, ranging from non-traumatic back pain to traumatic fractures. Some providers jump...
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PV Card: Continuous End Tidal CO2 Monitoring in Cardiac Arrest
For many years, end tidal CO2 monitoring initially was helpful in differentiating tracheal versus esophageal intubations. Now with continuous end t...
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PV Card: Normal Values for Ultrasound Measurements
As emergency medicine providers become more proficient in using bedside ultrasonography as a diagnostic tool, it can be difficult to remember all o...
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PV Card: Palliative Care Screening in the Emergency Department
What is Palliative Care? It is specialized medical care focusing on improving the care and quality of life for patients with advanced illness by de...
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Poll : How do you use the PV cards?
In our effort to take the Paucis verbis (PV) card series to the next level, we are interested in knowing how YOU use the cards. We would appreciat...
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Salicylate Toxicity PV card v2: Lessons in post-publication review
I was recently the author of a PV card for management of Salicylate Toxicity, which had some discrepancy with expert opinion. The point of contenti...
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Announcing the ALiEM-AgileMD Educational Design Fellowship
Based on the successes of our 2014-15 ALiEM-EMRA (for medical students), ALiEM-CORD (for residents), and ALiEM-AAEM Young Physicians fellowships, w...
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PV Card: Focused Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Ultrasound
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is always a consideration when patients with asymmetric lower extremity swelling. Why is one leg. Two-point focused DVT ...
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PV Card: Focused 1st Trimester Pregnancy Transvaginal Ultrasound
Early 1st trimester pregnancies can be challenging to risk stratify when patient present with bleeding or pain. The pregnancy may be still too earl...
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PV Card: Focused 1st Trimester Pregnancy Transabdominal Ultrasound
Although history, physical, and lab tests are obtained for patients with first trimester vaginal bleeding and abdominal pain, none compare to the u...
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PV Card: Focused Echocardiography Ultrasound
So many great information can be gleaned from a focused echocardiogram in Emergency Department patients. What views are you obtaining? What is the ...
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PV Card: Focused Lung Ultrasound
Bedside pulmonary ultrasonography is becoming increasingly popular in the Emergency Department. You can you use it to assess for pneumothoraces, pl...
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PV Card: Focused Ocular Ultrasound
Ocular injuries and pathology are a common cause for Emergency Department visits. With bedside ultrasonography, many of these conditions can be ass...
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PV Card: Testicular Ultrasound for Torsion and Epididymitis
“Time is testicle.” Every minute drags by while you are awaiting your ultrasonographer to arrive to scan your patient to rule out testicular torsio...
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PV Card: Skin and Soft Tissue Ultrasound
We know that ultrasonography can be used to identify soft tissue infections. But what exactly are the distinguishing features between cellulitis an...
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PV Card: Focused Biliary Assessment Ultrasound
Have trouble finding the common bile duct? What’s the normal thickness of the gallbladder wall? What are common pitfalls in imaging the gallbladder...
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PV Card: Focused Abdominal Aorta Ultrasound
In this next ultrasound installment in the PV Card series, Drs. Victoria Koskenoja, Heidi Kimberly, and Mike Stone succinctly summarize the focused...
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PV Card: FAST Ultrasound
Keeping in line with the recent ultrasound posts this month, Dr. Mike Stone’s star team is releasing a series of Paucis Verbis cards on the basics ...
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PV Card: Pediatric Ingestion Dose Thresholds for ED Referral
Clinical Toxicology has published guidelines for out-of-hospital management of 16 distinct overdoses and their dose thresholds, above which, pediat...
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PV Card: Local anesthetic toxicity calculations
Local anesthetics (LAs) are widely employed to achieve tissue infiltration, peripheral and regional anesthesia, and neuraxial blockades. Despite th...
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Did you know that there are new Tox/Meds PV Cards?
Don’t know when to use ketofol for procedure sedation or if you can rapidly load phenytoin? See the new PV-Plus Cards on AgileMD for free on any sm...
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New Cardiology PV Cards available on your phone and tablets!
After getting many requests for more PV cards, we are excited to launch 13 new topics located in the Cardiovascular folder of the Emergency Medicin...
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PV Card: Emergency Drug Cards for Adults and Children
Rob Bryant, MD (@RobJBryant13), Amie Hatch, PharmD, BCPS (@Amie_EMPharmD), and Jeremy Bair, PharmD (@bairpharm) from Intermountain Healthcare in Ut...
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PV Card: Brugada Criteria for SVT with Aberrancy vs Ventricular Tachycardia
Due to the overwhelming popularity of Dr. Salim Rezaie‘s recent post discussing the Brugada criteria for SVT with aberrancy vs VT, Dr. Jason West ...
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PV Card: Intimate partner violence
In the Emergency Department, we too often under-estimate our patients’ likelihood for intimate partner violence (IPV). Unfortunately, there is no p...
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PV card: Pediatric Assessment Triangle
Have you heard of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle? Taught in the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP) certification course, ...
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PV Card: Contraindications to Thrombolytics in Stroke
This Paucis Verbis (PV) card is an updated version of the PV card on Contraindications to Thrombolytics for CVA from September 10, 2010, based on ...
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PV card: Early repolarization vs STEMI on EKG
You are handed an EKG for a 50 yo man with moderate chest pain for 2 hours now and no associated symptoms typical for ACS, PE, aortic dissection, o...
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PV card: Ectopic pregnancy
Ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester of pregnancy. A recent JAMA systematic review,1 from The Rational C...
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Need your input! PV cards becoming an app
It’s all about luck, opportunity, and timing.
I will be releasing the blog’s first ever Paucis Verbis (PV) native app this year. After a few years...
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PV card: Bell’s Palsy Treatment
Bell’s Palsy is an idiopathic unilateral facial nerve paralysis.
Since the 2009 Cochrane review1 showing that antivirals added no benefit to cortic...
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PV card: VBG versus ABG
You obtain a venous blood gas (VBG) on a patient with a COPD exacerbation because you are concerned about hypercarbia. You get a value of 55 mmHg. ...
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