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Critical Care

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV

6/5/2017 Julie Dodson, MD , Jeffrey Goodloe, MD, NREMT-P, FACEP , Chance Dodson, MSII , Boyd Burns, DO

Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV It is important for the emergency physician to be comfortable directing and troubleshooting NIPPV in order to promote optimal patient outcomes. Paramedics

Toxicology , Medications

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse

6/5/2017 Thomas del Ninno, MD , R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, FACEPP , Danya Khoujah, MD

Take-Home Naloxone: Preventing Death in an Era of Abuse The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic, resulting in a significant increase in overdose deaths.1 From 2000 to 2014, there was

Hematology

Blood Transfusion Reactions: TACO, TRALI, and Other Considerations

6/5/2017 Joseph R. Giles, MD , Gary F. Pollock, MD, FACEP

Blood Transfusion Reactions: TACO, TRALI, and Other Considerations A 67-year-old woman with no known medical problems presents to the emergency department (ED) with severe anemia identified by her pr

Disaster Medicine , Sepsis

Preshospital Sepsis Alerts: A Stemi or Stroke Equivalent?

6/5/2017 Michael Spigner, MD, EMT-CC , Alanna O'Connell, DO

Preshospital Sepsis Alerts: A Stemi or Stroke Equivalent? “This is Medic 19 bringing in a Sepsis Alert, ETA 5 min.” With that alert, you mobilize your team and prepare for the patient. When they arr

Toxicology

Don't Kid Around: SGLT-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Euglycemic DKA

6/5/2017 Sajid Khan, MD , Maryam Arshad, MD

Don't Kid Around: SGLT-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Euglycemic DKA A 62-year-old female presents with cough and generalized weakness for one day. She has no other symptoms and physical exam is unrem

Critical Care , Cardiology

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib?

6/5/2017 Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Dual Defibrillation: The Achilles' Heel of Refractory V-Fib? Proposed theories as to why DD may be efficacious include the delivery of more energy to overcome the defibrillation threshold as well as

Infectious Disease

Top 10 Zika Facts for Emergency Physicians

6/5/2017 Francesco Adami

Top 10 Zika Facts for Emergency Physicians Zika has gained worldwide attention as an emerging virus, especially with regard to dangerous complications affecting the unborn. In an increasingly interco

Ventilator Management , Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Mechanical Ventilator Protocol

5/30/2017 Jonathan Jaffe, MD

Critical Care Alert: Mechanical Ventilator Protocol A Quasi-Experimental, Before-After Trial Examining the Impact of an Emergency Department Mechanical Ventilator Protocol on Clinical Outcomes and Lu

Representative Council , Speaker Report

EMRA RepCo: Goes Digital

5/30/2017 Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH, FACEP

EMRA RepCo: Goes Digital If you attended SAEM17, you probably noticed some changes during the EMRA Representative Council Meeting. After seeing only about 30% of our organization's representatives at

Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

5/30/2017 Abby Cosgrove, MD

Letter from the Editor There I was, driving giddily to the Social Security Administration office on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis. It was June 30, and I was a newlywed doctor (surely it was a mistake