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Author: Salim Rezaie

REBEL ECG of the Week #8

A 52 year old female with a past medical history of type II diabetes mellitus and tobacco abuse presents with a chief complaint of chest pain. According to the patient she had about 2 – 3 months of stuttering, substernal ...

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Cardiovascular

REBEL Cast Episode 2: Isolated Vomiting in Pediatric Minor Head Trauma & Early Detection of SIRS in the ED

Welcome to REBEL Cast August 2014, where Matt, Swami, and I are going to tackle a couple more scenarios to help your clinical practice. Today, we are going to specifically tackle two different topics: Topic #1: Significance of Isolated Vomiting in ...

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PediatricsResuscitation

Update on Age-Adjusted D-Dimer

D-dimer has been shown to increase with age, which can cause a lower specificity (i.e. more false positive tests) in older patients. The result of this would be that older patients would often have more diagnostic imaging or downstream testing, ...

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Hematology and Oncology

REBEL Cast Episode 1: Clinically Important Biphasic Anaphylaxis & Total Lymphocyte Count as a Surrogate Marker for CD4

Welcome to REBEL Cast Episode 1, where Matt, Swami, and I are going to tackle a couple of scenarios to help your clinical practice.  Today, we are going to specifically tackle two different topics: Topic #1: Clinically Important Biphasic Anaphylaxis ...

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Allergy and ImmunologyInfectious Disease

Introduction of REBEL Cast

For those who haven’t checked out the site already R.E.B.E.L. EM stands for Rational Evidence Based Evaluation of Literature in Emergency Medicine. (Edit: name changed 2/2016) The blog was launched in October 2013, and continues to grow every month, and ...

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