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Bites That Bleed: Crotalid EnvenomationMedscape (subscription) - 8 hours agoAnnals of Emergency Medicine. 2001;37:181-188. Dart R, Seifert S, Boyer L, Clark R, Hall E, McKinney P, et al.A randomized multicenter trial of Crotalinae ... |
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What to ask when leaving the ER7Online.com, NY - 10 hours agoIt's the nature of emergency medicine. People are sometimes deathly sick and ERs may seem to be chaotic. It's no wonder that there are patients who get ... |
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Top doc hits out at casualty planSouth Wales Evening Post, UK - 2 hours agoThe European Working Time Directive, which shortens the hours medics can work, along with a global shortage of doctors trained in emergency medicine, ... |
Hospital errors lead to 61 deathsThe Australian, Australia - Aug 25, 2008but then you understand that actually they're not trained or haven't the experience to understand,'' the College of Emergency Medicine's Tony Joseph told ... |
A&E consultant defends GPs at emergency unitWalesOnline, United Kingdom - Aug 24, 2008Andy MacNab, a consultant in emergency medicine at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, said a national shortage of middle-grade doctors has made it increasingly ... |
Key Answers For Healthcare ReformMedical News Today (press release), UK - Aug 23, 2008Judd Hollander, MD, Professor and Clinical Research Director in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, ... |
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Medicine for wild gets spot in FresnoFresno Bee (subscription), CA - Aug 22, 2008A new one-year fellowship in emergency medicine that focuses on wilderness medicine and emergency medical services has been added to the UCSF-Fresno Medical ... |
Hospital seeks revenue from slotsLebanon Daily News, PA - 16 hours agoSpeaking before the Derry Township supervisors last night, Dr. Tom Terndrup, chairman of the Emergency Medicine Department at the hospital, ... |
Business SceneJerusalem Post, Israel - Aug 26, 2008WOLFSON Medical Center in Holon has appointed Dr. Yael Haviv-Yedid to head its emergency-medicine unit. Haviv-Yedid is a specialist in internal medicine, ... |
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Ann Emerg Med
A Prevalence Study of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization in Emergency Department Health Care Workers.
(Apr 2008)
Acad Emerg Med
Comparison of Adverse Events during Procedural Sedation between Specially Trained Pediatric Residents and Pediatric Emergency Physicians in Israel.
(Jun 2008)
The Six-item Screener to Detect Cognitive Impairment in Older Emergency Department Patients.
(Jul 2008)
Emerg Med Clin North Am
Critical Care Toxicology.
(Aug 2008)
The Use of Vasopressors and Inotropes in the Emergency Medical Treatment of Shock.
(Aug 2008)
Am J Emerg Med
Efficacy of abdominal computed tomography and nasogastric tube in acute poisoning patients.
(Jul 2008)
Hypothermia in a desert climate: severity score and mortality prediction.
(Jul 2008)
Pediatr Emerg Care
Comparing the frequency of unrecognized attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in injured versus noninjured patients presenting for care in the pediatric emergency department.
(Jul 2008)
Foot injuries associated with all-terrain vehicle use in children and adolescents.
(Jul 2008)
Eur J Emerg Med
A novel intravascular rewarming method to treat severe hypothermia.
(Feb 2008)
To study the effectiveness and safety of ketamine and midazolam procedural sedation in the incision and drainage of abscesses in the adult emergency department.
(Jun 2008)
JAMA
Association of volume with outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Scheduled vs nonscheduled operations.
(Feb 1987)
Should a moratorium be placed on sublingual nifedipine capsules given for hypertensive emergencies and pseudoemergencies?
(Oct 1996)
N Engl J Med
Multifactorial index of cardiac risk in noncardiac surgical procedures.
(Oct 1977)
Emergency coronary angioplasty in refractory unstable angina.
(Aug 1985)
BMJ
Paramedics and technicians are equally successful at managing cardiac arrest outside hospital.
(Apr 1995)
Prospective evaluation of eligibility for thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction.
(Jun 1996)
Prehosp Emerg Care
Evidence-based performance measures for emergency medical services systems: a model for expanded EMS benchmarking.
(Apr-Jun 2008)
Preferences for EMS transport and pediatric emergency department care.
(Apr-Jun 2008)
Air Med J
Feasibility of preclinical cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance in HEMS in thoracic pain--the ultrasonic cardiac output monitor.
(Nov-Dec 2006)
Should we fly or drive? The use of a computer-based system (ANTSS) for resource utilization.
(Mar-Apr 2007)
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CBCED Features
Links to other web pages related to Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases.
The Casualty Care Research Center prepared this series of real-life-based risk scenarios.
The Centers for Disease Control has established a Bioterrorism Program to ensure the rapid development of federal, state, and local capacity to address potential bioterrorism events.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control notifies clinicians of serious ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats.
The Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for managing and coordinating Federal medical responses to major emergencies, including those resulting from terrorism.
Documents and resources to facilitate response planning for a terrorist incident
eMedicine CBRNE
An extensive list of CBRNE topics from the world's largest medical textbooks.
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Biological Warfare Agents
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Botulism
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Brucellosis
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Chemical Decontamination
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Chemical Detection Equipment
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Chemical Warfare Agents
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Chemical Warfare Mass Casualty Management
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Cyanides, Cyanogen Chloride
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Cyanides, Hydrogen
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Evaluation Of A Biological Warfare Victim
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Evaluation Of A Chemical Warfare Victim
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Glanders and Melioidosis
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Incapacitating Agents, 3-quinuclidinyl Benzilate
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Incapacitating Agents, Agent 15
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Incapacitating Agents, Cannabinoids
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Incapacitating Agents, LSD
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Incendiary Agents, Magnesium and Thermite
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Incendiary Agents, Napalm
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Incendiary Agents, White Phosphorus
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Irritants: Cs, Cn, Cnc, Ca, Cr, Cnb, PS
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Lung-Damaging Agents, Chlorine
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Lung-damaging Agents, Chloropicrin
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Lung-damaging Agents, Diphosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Phosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Toxic Smokes: Nox, Hc, Rp, Fs, Fm, Sgf2, Teflon
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Nerve Agents, G-series: Tabun, Sarin, Soman
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Nerve Agents, V-series: Ve, Vg, Vm, Vx
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Plague
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Q Fever
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Ricin
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Smallpox
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Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
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T-2 Mycotoxins
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Urticants, Phosgene Oxime
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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
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Vesicants, Mustard: Hd, Hn1-3, H
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Vesicants, Organic Arsenicals: L, ED, MD, PD, HL
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
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Vomiting Agents: Dm, Da, Dc
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RECENT BLOG POSTINGS
Starting 1st real EM job, disability insurance??
Student Doctor Network Forums - Emergency Medicine
Hello all... I have finally succesfully graduated and am starting my 1st real EM job. Very exciting!! I am very interested in obtaining disability insurance, and am curious if anyone has any suggestions. I do know that ACEP has a group ...
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North Carolina Emergency Medicine LS2380x
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North Carolina Emergency Medicine. This is a premier hospital based group that offers not only the challenge of a Level 1 Trauma Center, but also the ability to make in the 90th percentile of ED income in the US. ...
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Case #44 “Send Her Home When Her Husband Gets Here” by Charlene ...
Emergency Medicine Forum
During sign out rounds, you walk by a 25 y/o female, resting on the cot with her eyes shut. The leaving attending notes that she received Prochlorperazine (Compazine) and Diphenhydramine (Benedryl) for a headache, was feeling better, ...
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DVD Kedokteran Volume #25
DVD Kedokteran
54. Electrophysiologic testing 4th ed 55. Emerg2008, Vol.26, Issues 3, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine 56. Emergency Care of Children and Young People 57. Emergency Medicine Avoiding the Pitfalls and Improving the Outcomes ...
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PAworld.net Physician Assistant Jobs 8/27
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Children's Medical Center appoints new chief of emergency medicine
pegasusnews.com stories
Dr. Halim Hennes comes to Children’s Medical Center from Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was a professor of pediatrics and the associate director of Emergency Medicine Research Forum.
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Emergency medicine - first come first serve
Maeflowers the blog
The wait at the ER has increased in recent years, because there are fewer emergency departments and more patients as fewer people are insured and fewer are visiting their family doctor.
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Emergency Medicine Physician Joins Marshfield Clinic Rice Lake Center
Marshfield Clinic
Pneuma Ortega, MD, an emergency medicine physician, is now seeing patients at Lakeview Medical Center, Rice Lake.
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New York State Fair Features ICE for 2008!
ICE4SAFETY.COM
The Emergency Medicine Department at Upstate Hospital ( A teaching hospital) has recognized for the second year in a row, that using ICE can be a valuable tool in your survival. They have their poster and brochures prominently ...
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AHA weighs in on proposed rural clinic rule
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
From Modern Healthcare:. Certain requirements in the CMS’ proposed rule on rural health clinics are potentially unfair and need to be revised, the American Hospital Association wrote in comments to the agency. ...
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Interest groups
Med School Memo
Today we didn’t have one of those but we had an Emergency Medicine Interest Group barbecue. Its kind of like a club for medical school students. We had to pay dues to be a part of the group (just thirty bucks) but we get to do cool ...
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Disciplined Docs in Maryland, Part I
Consuming Interests
Area of Practice: Emergency Medicine (Edgewater, MD) -- Revocation. the Board will not entertain any application for reinstatement for 10 years; order for summary suspension vacated as moot. The Board found that the physician committed ...
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Deja Review: Emergency Medicine (Deja Review)
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Summary: Excellent review book for any emergency medicine clerkshipRating: 5Reviewer: Fourth medical student going into emergency medicine Overview: Deja Review EM is a question/answer book much like the very popular First aid series or ...
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Physician Assist Career Opportunities!
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NORTHERN MICHIGAN EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND HOSPITALIST POSITIONS! #082108246. Physician Assistant or Family Nurse Practitioner Emergency Department and After Hours Clinic in northern Michigan. This is a fast paced, high volume (18000 pt’s ...
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[Original articles] Can a change in policy reduce emergency ...
Emergency Medicine Journal recent issues
Reduction in admissions is an important aim of emergency department working policy to overcome the problems of a shortage of inpatient beds, overcrowding, rising costs and exhausted resources. A new policy was instituted in the ...
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Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine
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URL: Amazon.com: Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications): Jonathan Wyatt, Robin Illingworth, Michael Clancy, Phillip T. Munro, Colin Robertson: Books Product Details pages: 600 pages ...
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Emergency Physicians Good at Spotting an Emerging MI
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
... pain as often for patients presenting with an evolving heart attack as for those with STEMI (76% versus 71%), Chadwick Miller, MD, of Wake Forest University here, and colleagues reported online in the Emergency Medicine Journal. ...
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Other people's money: "emergency" medicine
Management R&D
Four in 10 of the patients flooding California's dwindling and overtaxed emergency rooms could be treated elsewhere, but can't wait for an appointment with their own doctor, according to a study released Tuesday.
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[Original articles] "Heely"-related injuries in children
Emergency Medicine Journal recent issues
To assess the number and type of "Heely"-related injuries seen in the emergency department in a busy district general hospital and to assess the number of school days lost as a result of these injuries as a secondary measure of the ...
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Daily Question
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How can one distinguish bilirubin-induced urinary foaminess from protein-induced urinary foaminess?
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Answer
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The foam of bilirubin is yellow, whereas the foam seen in proteinuria is white.
Problem-Oriented Medical Diagnosis, 4th ed. p 250
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Daily Aphorism
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Daily Eponym
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Progressive myoclonus epilepsy, autosomal recessive, onset teenage years, characterized by seizures and cumulative neurological deterioration, death within ten years usually results in death within ten years of the first symptoms.
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Daily Phobia
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Fear of things to the left, left-handed.
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Historical Terms
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Exhalations or emanations, applied especially to those of noxious character. In the mid-nineteenth century, they were called "vapours" and distinguished into the contagious effluvia, such as rubeolar (measles); marsh effluvia, such as miasmata; and those arising from animals or vegetables, such as odours.
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Mnemonics
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carotid SinuS = measures preSSure - carotid bOdy measures O2.
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