BEST CASE EVER CLINICAL PRACTICE DRUG SEEKERS EMERGENCY MEDICINE MALINGERER OPIATES OPIOD ABUSE OPIOD ADDICTION PAIN MANAGEMENT PHYSICIAN COMPASSION PSYCHIATRY REUBEN STRAYER SPECIAL POPULATIONS TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 41 Opiate Misuse and Physician Compassion

Opiate misuse is everywhere. Approximately 15-20% of ED patients in the US are prescribed outpatient opiates upon discharge. In Ontario, about 10 people die accidentally from prescription opiates every week. Between 1990 and 2010, drug overdose deaths in the US incr...

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BEST CASE EVER CLINICAL PRACTICE DRUG SEEKERS EMERGENCY MEDICINE MALINGERER OPIATES OPIOD ABUSE OPIOD ADDICTION PAIN MANAGEMENT PHYSICIAN COMPASSION PSYCHIATRY REUBEN STRAYER SPECIAL POPULATIONS TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 41 Opiate Misuse and Physician Compassion

Opiate misuse is everywhere. Approximately 15-20% of ED patients in the US are prescribed outpatient opiates upon discharge. In Ontario, about 10 people die accidentally from prescription opiates every week. Between 1990 and 2010, drug overdose deaths in the US incr...

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ANTHONY CROCCO BEST CASE EVER BREATFEEDING CODEINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY PEDIATRICS TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder

On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Head and the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences Hosptial, discusses an approach to the neonatal lazy feeder and why we...

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ANTHONY CROCCO BEST CASE EVER BREATFEEDING CODEINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY PEDIATRICS TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder

On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Head and the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences Hosptial, discusses an approach to the neonatal lazy feeder and why we...

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ANTHONY CROCCO BEST CASE EVER BREATFEEDING CODEINE MEDICAL SPECIALTY PEDIATRICS TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder

On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Head and the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences Hosptial, discusses an approach to the neonatal lazy feeder and why we...

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BEST CASE EVER DDAVP ECSTASY EMERGENCY MEDICINE MDMA MEDICAL SPECIALTY MELANIE BAIMEL ODS OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 33: Over-correction of Hyponatremia

Rapid over-correction of Hyponatremia can have devastating consequences: for one, osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) can result in destruction of the pons and a locked-in state. We don't see ODS very much as it's onset is delayed and usually sets in after the patient is a...

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BEST CASE EVER DDAVP ECSTASY EMERGENCY MEDICINE MDMA MEDICAL SPECIALTY MELANIE BAIMEL ODS OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 33: Over-correction of Hyponatremia

Rapid over-correction of Hyponatremia can have devastating consequences: for one, osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) can result in destruction of the pons and a locked-in state. We don't see ODS very much as it's onset is delayed and usually sets in after the patient is a...

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BEST CASE EVER DDAVP ECSTASY EMERGENCY MEDICINE MDMA MEDICAL SPECIALTY MELANIE BAIMEL ODS OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 33: Over-correction of Hyponatremia

Rapid over-correction of Hyponatremia can have devastating consequences: for one, osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) can result in destruction of the pons and a locked-in state. We don't see ODS very much as it's onset is delayed and usually sets in after the patient is a...

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B-BLOCKER BEST CASE EVER CARDIAC ARREST CHLORAL HYDRATE EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MIKE BETZNER RESUSCITATION TORSADES DE POINTES TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 26: Chloral Hydrate Poisoning and Cardiac Arrest

I met up with Mike Betzner at North York General's Update in EM Conference in Toronto. He is the medical director of Air Transport STARS air ambulance out of Calgary and an amazing speaker on the national lecturing circuit. His Best Case Ever on Chloral Hydrate poisoning &a...

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B-BLOCKER BEST CASE EVER CARDIAC ARREST CHLORAL HYDRATE EM CASES EMERGENCY MEDICINE MIKE BETZNER RESUSCITATION TORSADES DE POINTES TOXICOLOGY
Best Case Ever 26: Chloral Hydrate Poisoning and Cardiac Arrest

I met up with Mike Betzner at North York General's Update in EM Conference in Toronto. He is the medical director of Air Transport STARS air ambulance out of Calgary and an amazing speaker on the national lecturing circuit. His Best Case Ever on Chloral Hydrate poisoning &a...

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