Browsing: June 2017

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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
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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
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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
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Critical Care

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You

6/5/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Clark Owyang, MD
Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You All these factors coalesce in the trauma bay to create a downward spiral of shock where life-saving interventions wrestle with each other as the patient