Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief A 55-year-old patient is being brought to your trauma center via air rescue from the beach after being…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Approximately one out of every 200 visits to the emergency department (ED) in the United States is due…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Pre-brief Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is the most common worldwide fish poisoning Annually, estimates of the number of people…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief The Pre-brief: Rabies is a preventable zoonotic disease that is most often transmitted through the bite of a…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Management of the hypotensive patient is critical knowledge in the emergency department (ED) This population represents some of…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jordan had Pippen, Batman has Robin, peanut butter has jelly, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has… fomepizole? Fomepizole – yes, that fomepizole – is traditionally used for toxic alcohol poisoning, and recent evidence shows that it may also be useful when used in conjunction with NAC for massive acetaminophen overdose.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Complications of massive transfusion include electrolyte derangements, with hypocalcemia being one of the main clinically significant electrolyte abnormalities. Learrn why you should know about hypocalcemia in trauma