Recently I was asked to speak at the Texas College of Emergency Physicians (TCEP) conference April 2018. The particulars of this session were, five, 10 minute lectures on new indications for old drugs. My topic was the use of octreotide ...
Background:Endotracheal intubation is a common occurrence in the ED. Many patients requiring airway management are at a higher risk of hypoxia due to deranged respiratory physiology (i.e. decreased functional residual capacity and/or increased shunt fraction). Advocates of video laryngoscopy argue ...
Background: Bronchiolitis is an acute inflammatory injury of the distal smaller airways, most commonly caused by viral infections. There have been a host of medications studied in the treatment of bronchiolitis, including steroids, albuterol, epinephrine, and inhaled hypertonic saline, with ...
Background: Lectures are the most common education form at medical conferences. For simplicity sake, generally, the lecturer stands in front of a group of learners and disseminates information via the use of slides. Learning theories, such as Mayer’s cognitive theory ...
Background: There have now been several trials published on the use of steroids in sepsis. In 2002, we had the Annane Trial, with 299 patients showing mortality and shock reversal benefit in sepsis with hydrocortisone. Then in 2008 we had ...
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