Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a common arrhythmia with a prevalence of 2 per 1000 adults SVT is an…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Case: A 26-year-old female presents to the ED after an attempted suicide with an intentional ingestion of an unknown amount…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief Modern-day medicine doesn’t quite utilize intracardiac epinephrine, however, every now and then it resurfaces during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Intracardiac injection…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief My older toddler loves asking me “why?” Why did the flower die after we picked it? Why is…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief EMS is bringing in a 42-year-old male found down on the sidewalk with a bag of heroin in…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief A 32-year-old male presents to the ED in status. He’s received 5 mg of intramuscular (IM) midazolam in…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief A 32-year-old female presents to the trauma bay after a house fire. She is found to be severely…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Pre-Brief Intranasal medication administration can be a non-invasive way to administer medications resulting in a quick onset of action. It’s…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Beta-lactam intolerance is often misconstrued as an “allergy” and subsequently documented in the patient chart, forever committing the patient to inferior or unnecessarily broad-spectrum antibiotics.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief DKA patients are common in our ED. Diagnosis and treatment are standard with the utilization of a continuous…