Browsing: July 2024

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Infectious Disease , Urology

Not Just Rectal Bleeding: A Case of Fournier’s Gangrene

7/10/2024 Elaine Hsiang, MD , Claire Perrin , Maria Raven, MD, MPH, MS, FACEP
Fournier’s gangrene is a surgical emergency. Time to surgical intervention is the most significant modifiable risk factor for mortality in these necrotizing infections, and early intervention can halv
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International EM , Ultrasound

The Art of Chin Chin: A Multi-Year Partnership in the Dominican Republic Advancing POCUS

7/1/2024 Irbert Vega , Robert Fuller, MD, FACEP , Natalie J. Moore, MD , Ybel Fermín Fernández, MD , Heather Hechter, MD , José Raúl Vargas Estévez, MD
When I (lead author Irbert L. Vega, MD) went to the Dominican Republic for my global EM elective, I suddenly found myself in an environment where POCUS was still a nascent technology instead of a stan
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Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology , Resuscitation

Critical Care Alert: Treatment of Refractory Cardiac Arrest by Controlled Reperfusion of the Whole Body

7/1/2024 Alex Lucas, MD , Josh Wild, DO , Gabriel Colon, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD
ECPR continues to show promising results for patients undergoing cardiac arrest. CARL technology implements a new design that provides comprehensive monitoring and multimodal therapy to address the un