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Author: Salim Rezaie

Keeping Up in EM at Cook County Grand Rounds

Background: With hundreds of journals, and thousands of publications in any given month it is near impossible to sift through all the current medical literature and hope that you find the most pertinent articles that could impact practice. One of the key ...

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Petition to Retire the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines

Friends, Concern regarding the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines dates back to their inception.  Guideline development was sponsored by Eli Lilly and Edwards Life Sciences as part of a commercial marketing campaign (1).  Throughout its history, the SSC has a ...

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Infectious Disease

Chest Pain, “Negative” Stress Tests, POCUS, & ECG Equations

I was working a busy shift in the ED, like many of us do, and the next patient I was going to see was a 57 year old male with no real medical problems complaining of chest pain.  I remember ...

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Cardiovascular

Chest Pain, "Negative" Stress Tests, POCUS, & ECG Equations

I was working a busy shift in the ED, like many of us do, and the next patient I was going to see was a 57 year old male with no real medical problems complaining of chest pain.  I remember ...

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Cardiovascular

REBEL Cast Episode 49: Pediatric Pain Management Pearls with Sebrina Perkins

Background: There has been lots of research published in past years on how to minimize pain and anxiety in children brought to the ED.  Unfortunately, as we all know there is often a lag time from research publication to clinical ...

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Pediatrics

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