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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Pediatric Patients: A Clinical Decision Rule

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A school-age child was brought to the ED by the mother following involvement in an MVC during which the child was restrained with a lap be...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

#FOAMed Digest No. 1: Total Eclipse of the Heart

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Welcome to the very first edition of the WUEMR FOAMed Digest! The Social Media Committee hopes with this segment to parse out from the over...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Emergency Department management of myasthenic crisis

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A 23 year old woman with a history of myasthenia gravis presented with several days of worsening generalized weakness, shortness of breath,...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Rigid Backboard for Spinal Immobilization?

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You are working a busy overnight shift when you see EMS bring in a “trauma packaged” patient – a young, healthy-appearing female, on a hard ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Valproic acid and status epilepticus

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You are working in trauma when a patient arrives with altered mental status requiring intubation, and a negative work-up who seemingly wakes...

Does a cervical seatbelt sign mandate advanced imaging?

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You are working in the emergency department when EMS brings in a middle aged female who was the restrained driver in a low speed head-on MVC...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Insulin bolus in DKA?

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A middle aged male with a history of IDDM presents with 2 days of nausea and vomiting. He reports running out of his insulin. In triage, FSB...