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ESCALA DE COMA DE GLASGOW. Novedades
by EMS Solutions International
Jun 08, 2022
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Escala de Coma de Glasgow
Dr. Ramon Reyes, MD
¿Por qué es más fácil aceptar las teorías de conspiración que las científicas?Por...
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REBEL Cast Ep109: The RePHILL Trial
Background: Currently, trauma resuscitation focuses on immediate hemorrhage control, resuscitation with blood products (i.e. PRBCs, plasma) and ear...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: Snowball Effects
A 13-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with complaints of a right eye injury. Five hours prior to arrival, he was struck directly ...
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EM Quick Hits 36 – Surviving Sepsis, Angle Closure Glaucoma, Bougies, Frostbite, Hot/Altered Patient, Central Cord Syndrome
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Brit Long on Surving Sepsis Campaign -2021 Updates, Nour Khatib on rural medicine case - angle closure glauc...
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PECARN Blunt Abdominal Trauma: Is A Clinical Decision Instrument Better Than Clinician Gestalt?
Background: Unintentional injuries remain the leading cause of mortality in children. While traumatic brain injuries and thoracic traumas are the t...
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REBEL Core Cast 70.0 – Open Fractures
Take Home Points:
Prioritize ABCs and systematic evaluation of the trauma patient with an open fracture as one third of these patients have multip...
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SINDROME DE APLASTAMIENTO
SINDROME DE APLASTAMIENTO
Torniquetes en trauma por aplastamiento (crush injuries) by JORGE INSIGNARES, MD https://www.linkedin.com/in/jor...
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EM Quick Hits 33 Polytrauma Tips & Tricks, Toxic Megacolon, ECG in PE, Patch Calls, CT Before LP, Nebulized Ketamine
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast, Anand Swaminathan on tips and tricks in polytrauma, Rohit Mohindra on diagnosis and management of toxic mega...
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IDEA Series: DIY Suture Kit Station
In medical training there is a lack of simulation based activities including procedural labs. Suturing is a critical skill for trainees to master i...
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12th Man Emergency Playbook / MANUAL TACTICO PARA EMERGENCIAS. 12th MAN ¿Cómo sobrevivir un tiroteo. Versión en Español?
12th Man Emergency Playbook PDF
Grupo en TELEGRAM de Emergenciashttps://t.me/joinchat/GRsTvEHYjNLP8yc6gPXQ9Q
¿Por qué es más fácil aceptar las ...
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Ep 160 Geriatric Trauma 2 Rib Fractures, Pelvic Fractures, Prognostication, Elder Abuse, Discharge Planning
In Geriatric Trauma Part 2 we answer questions such as: what are the indications for transfer to a trauma center in older patients with rib fractur...
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EMRad: Can’t Miss Adult Traumatic Hip and Pelvis Injuries
Have you ever been working a shift at 3 AM and wondered, “Am I missing something? I’ll just splint and instruct the patient to follow up with th...
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EMRad: Radiologic Approach to the Traumatic Hip/Pelvis
This is EMRad, a series aimed at providing “just in time” approaches to commonly ordered radiology studies in the emergency department [1]. When ...
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Ep 159 Geriatric Trauma Part 1: The Under-Triaging Problem, Resuscitation, Airway, Head and C-spine Imaging, Clearing the C-spine
Just as pediatric patients are not small adults, geriatric patients are not just old adults. In this Part 1 of our 2-part EM Cases podcast series o...
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EM Quick Hits 30 Scaphoid Fracture, Therapeutic Hypothermia, HEADS-ED, Pelvic Trauma, Kratom, Femoral Lines
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Arun Sayal on the nuances of assessment for scaphoid fractures, Justin Morgenstern on the evidence for thera...
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SplintER Series: One Big Bounce
A 5-year-old boy presents with right leg pain and a limp. His parents report it started after he was bouncing on the trampoline with his older s...
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Journal Jam 18 The Evidence for TXA – Should Tranexamic Acid Be Routine Therapy in the Bleeding Patient?
With the help of a special guest, EBM guru Dr. Ken Milne of the The SGEM, Anton and Justin look at all the various potential indications for TXA an...
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REBEL Core Cast 58.0 – Wound Care IV – Future Directions
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The post REBEL Core Cast 58.0 – Wound Care IV – Future Directions ap...
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SplintER Series: Neck Pain Tears Me Up
A 40-year-old male presents with neck pain after a high-speed head-on motor vehicle collision. You obtain cervical spine x-rays (Figure 1).
Figu...
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EMRad: Can’t Miss Pediatric Elbow Injuries
Have you ever been working a shift at 3 am and wondered, “Am I missing something? I’ll just splint and instruct the patient to follow up with th...
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EMRad: Radiologic Approach to the Pediatric Traumatic Elbow X-ray
This is EMRad, a series aimed at providing “just in time” approaches to commonly ordered radiology studies in the emergency department [1]. When ap...
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POCUS Cases 9 Abdominal Free Fluid in Trauma
Rob Simard explains how to incorporate abdominal POCUS into your assessment of the trauma patient, he reviews the literature on accuracy of POCUS f...
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Ep 152 The 7 Ts of Massive Hemorrhage Protocols
Dr. Jeannie Callum, Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak and Dr. Barbara Haas join Anton in answering the questions: How do you decide when to activate the MHP? ...
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PEM Pearls: To Scan or Not to Scan? CT Abdomen in Children with Blunt Torso Trauma
An 18-month-old female with no past medical history is brought in by ambulance after a motor vehicle collision (MVC) at highway speed, restrained i...
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REBEL Cast Ep94: The ITACTIC Trial – Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay Augmented Protocols
Background: Current trauma resuscitation prioritizes control of bleeding and uses massive transfusion protocols to prevent and treat coagulopathy. ...
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REBEL Core Cast 46.0 – Resuscitative Hysterotomy
Take Home Points
This is a resuscitative hysterotomy – focus is on saving the mother first. Delivering the fetus can improve venous return thus in...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: Eye Pain After Assault
A 33-year-old male presents with intermittent blurry vision and left eye pain for 3 months, and a left-sided orbital headache for 1 day. He repor...
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IM Administration of Tranexamic Acid
Background: We have covered tranexamic acid (TXA) on this blog in several posts. Its use has been studied for everything that bleeds from abnormal ...
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SAEM Clinical Images: Man vs Snow Blower
A 28-year-old man presents to the emergency department after a snow blower accident while at work. The patient was performing maintenance and he ...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: An Incidental Finding
A middle-aged man presented after a motor vehicle collision with a logging truck at 55 miles per hour with low back pain. A computed tomography s...
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EM Quick Hits 23 – Clinical Probability Adjusted D-dimer, ARDS Part 2, Pharyngitis Mimics, Barotrauma, Vertigo, CPR Gender-Based Differences
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast we have Salim Rezaie on clinical probability adjusted D-dimer for pulmonary embolism, Bourke Tillmann on ARDS...
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Should we Rubber STAAMP Prehospital TXA?
Background: It almost seems that when it comes to the use of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma, one argument has just been...
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: Man vs Pneumatic Nail Gun
A 40-year-old male presents with injury to his left hand by a nail gun. While at work, the patient accidentally shot himself with a nail gun. The...
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Trauma/Burn Clinical Guidelines. A Quick Guide for the Management of Trauma/Burn Disasters for Emergency Department Personnel Rev. August 2013
Trauma/Burn Clinical Guidelines. A Quick Guide for the Management of Trauma/Burn Disasters for Emergency Department Personnel Rev. August 2013
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EM Quick Hits 22 Postpartum Hemorrhage, Phenobarbital in Status Epilepticus, Managed Alcohol Programs, Traumatic Cardiac Arrest, Cholangitis, ED Approach to ARDS
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast, Anand Swaminathan on postpartum hemorrhage, Justin Morgenstern on phenobarbital in pediatric status epilepti...
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Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – Can we Find Prognostic Factors that Predict Survival?
Background: Trauma remains the leading cause of death in the United States for those aged less than 45 years old. Those who arrest from hemorrhage ...
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IDEA Series: Homemade Escharotomy Kit
Although escharotomy is rarely performed by emergency physicians during the initial management of burns, it is a life and limb-sparing skill impor...
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EMRad: Radiologic Approach to the Traumatic Knee
Radiology teaching during medical school is variable, ranging from informal teaching to required clerkships [1]. Many of us likely received an a...
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EMRad: Can’t Miss Adult Knee Injuries
Figure 1: Normal AP knee x-ray. Case courtesy of Dr Andrew Dixon, Radiopaedia.org, annotations by Stephen Villa MD.
Have you ever been working a...
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REBEL Core Cast 34.0 – Chest Tubes
Take Home Points
Small to Moderate Size Pneumothorax – consider managing conservatively with observation (need to make sure consulting services on...
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EMRad: Can’t Miss Adult Shoulder Injuries
Have you ever been working a shift at 3 am and wondered, “Am I missing something? I’ll just splint and instruct the patient to follow up with the...
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EMRad: Radiologic Approach to the Traumatic Shoulder
This is EMRad, a series aimed at providing “just in time” approaches to commonly ordered radiology studies in the emergency department [1]. When a...
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IDEA series: The Bleeding Arm Tourniquet Simulation
Education in emergency response to trauma is a global health priority [1]. Mortality rates are nearly twice as high in patients with trauma in low...
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EM Quick Hits 17 Adrenal Crisis, Strep Throat, Posterior MI, DKA Just the Facts, Ovarian Torsion Imaging, HINTS Exam, Canadian CT Head Rule
Anand Swaminathan on recognition and ED management of adrenal crisis, Maria Ivankovic on indications for antibiotics in strep throat from EM Cases ...
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ALiEM AIR | Trauma 2020 Module
Welcome to the AIR Trauma Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts from the top 50 sites of the Social Media Index, the ALiEM AIR T...
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EMRad: Can’t Miss Adult Ankle and Foot Injuries
Have you ever been working at 3am and wondered, “Am I missing something? I’ll just splint and instruct the patient to follow up with their PCP in...
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EMRad: Approach to the Traumatic Foot X-ray
Radiology teaching during medical school is variable, ranging from informal teaching to required clerkships [1]. Many of us likely received an a...
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EMRad: Radiologic Approach to the Traumatic Ankle
Radiology teaching during medical school is variable, ranging from informal teaching to required clerkships [1]. Many of us likely received an ap...
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Crit Cases 14 Bronchopleural Fistula Management
Dr. Mike Misch guides us through this part 2 of a blunt chest trauma case with a presumed bronchopulmonary fistula requiring 3 chest tubes and desc...
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CritCases 13 Shock and Hypoxia in Blunt Chest Trauma
In this CritCases blog, Shock and Hypoxia in Blunt Chest Trauma, a collaboration between STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner and EM Cases, Mi...
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