Background: Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) is defined as carotid or vertebral artery injury due to blunt trauma. There are several screening criteria that have been developed to screen for this injury, however a significant number of patients may still be ...
Background Information: With rising cases, an increasing death toll, and a significant strain on hospital systems globally, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have no end in sight. The aggressive pursuit of a vaccine has led to multiple clinical trials starting before ...
Background: Vasopressors are usually given through central venous catheters (CVC). This, however, is a time-consuming process and placement of a peripheral venous catheter (PIV) is much faster. Each hour of delay has been associated with a 2% increase in in-hospital mortality.2 Using ...
Background: Despite continued focus on equity in healthcare, it has yet to be realized in the United States. Healthcare can be considered a microcosm of society where resources are not allocated fairly among the population. A recent editorial in the ...
Back in April 2020, on REBEL Cast episode 79 we sat down to discuss COVID-19. Specifically, we focused on not intubating patients early and why ARDSnet may not be the best ventilator paradigm for patients with COVID-19. By popular demand, ...
Background: Intravenous alteplase is the current standard care for treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) despite active debate on the research supporting its use. The window for its use has been restricted to <3h of symptom onset based on the ...
Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous therapeutic agents have been repurposed and applied empirically and within clinical trials. Prophylactic medications for COVID-19 could have a huge benefit, but studies to date haven’t panned out. Initially many therapeutic medications were used late in ...
Take Home Points This is a resuscitative hysterotomy – focus is on saving the mother first. Delivering the fetus can improve venous return thus increasing chance to save mom Don’t focus on gestational age to make the decision – if ...
Background: The COVID-19 Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine, let’s just call it the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine (so I don’t have to keep writing BNT162b2) is a novel mRNA vaccine developed to give immunity against the SARS CoV2 virus. It is synthesized mRNA packaged ...
Background: In the US out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has an estimated survival rate of <10% overall, but slightly better survival rates with shockable rhythms of approximately 30% . A small proportion of these patients will have refractory VF/VT OHCA not ...
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