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Author: Salim Rezaie

Door to Furosemide (D2F) in Acute CHF…Really?

Background: Acute congestive heart failure (AHF) is a common complaint seen in the ED and associated with a high morbidity, mortality, cost, and resources.  Many patients with AHF, ultimately end up being admitted and interventions in the ED can make …

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Cardiovascular

It’s Time for Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Massive Hemorrhage

Background: Bleeding from massive hemorrhage in trauma and post-partum are a major cause of death worldwide. There have been two large randomized controlled trials, in trauma and post-partum hemorrhage that have shown administration of TXA within 3 hrs of bleeding …

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Trauma

REBEL Cast Episode 42: Research From the Past Year – In the Pipeline

Welcome back to Episode 42 of REBEL Cast. In this episode, we will be discussing some studies from the past year that had some interesting results and a couple of papers that are potentially going to change our practice in …

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Clinical Pearls from ACEP 2017 – Washington D.C.

This year ACEP 2017 took place in Washington D.C. from Oct. 29th – Nov 1st, 2017.   There were lots of amazing speakers and topics as was evidenced by the eruption of everyone’s twitter feeds with the #ACEP17 hashtag.  I was …

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CardiovascularOrthopedicsResuscitation

The Critical Pulmonary Embolism Patient

Background: Previously, I had given a talk on the use of thrombolytics in submassive PE in 2016. This year, I had the privilege of speaking at ACOEP 2017 again with an update on the critical pulmonary embolism patient. This post …

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Thoracic and Respiratory

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