Back to Basics: Approach to Atrial Fibrillation w RVR
Here is your quick guide to rate and rhythm control of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response.
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Alexis Pelletier-Bui, MD
Back to Basics: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Abnormal uterine bleeding? Remember PAL-COEIN.
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Back to Basics: Ketamine for Pain Management
Ketamine is a swiss army knife of drugs. Read on for use in pain management.
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Back to Basics: Hyperkalemia Management
Remember, when you see a big K+, “C BIG K”! (+ a few others…)
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Back to Basics: Heat Emergencies
Summer and the hot weather isn't over just yet! Read on for the common heat emergencies that you may still be seeing in your ED.
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Back to Basics: Decompression Illness
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While the scuba diving decompression illnesses of decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism are treated the same, the pathophysiology and presentation are different.
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Back to Basics: Hematuria
SHIIITTS can help you remember the common causes of blood in #1.
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Back to Basics: Foreign Body Ingestion
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In 2010, there were approximately 535,000 ED visits for foreign bodies. Approximately 80-90% of ingested foreign bodies pass through the GI tract without complications while the rest require intervention. What are some basics that you need to know about foreign bodies that ingested, aspirated and inserted?
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Back to Basics: Forearm Fracture-Dislocations
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A quick visual summary of forearm fracture-dislocations
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Back to Basics: Kawaski Disease
Read on for a "can't-miss" diagnosis that should be on your differential for a child with prolonged (>/= 5 days) fever.
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