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Medical Category: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal
REBEL Core Cast 22.0 – Decompensated Liver Disease
Take Home Points End stage liver disease patients have fragile baseline physiology. Minor insults can have profound effects Always start with the basics – large bore IV lines SBP give 3rd generation cephalosporin + albumin in severe disease Upper ...
REBEL Cast Ep 48: Octreotide and Somatostatin for Undifferentiated Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed
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 ...
Acute Pancreatitis
Acute Pancreatitis Background: Definition: Acute inflammatory process of the pancreas; a retroperitoneal organ with endocrine and exocrine function. Epidimiology (Rosen’s 2018) US Incidence: 5 – 40/100,000 Mortality: 4-7% Progression to severe disease: 10-15% of cases (mortality in this subset 20-50%) ...
Episode 36 – Resuscitate Before You Endoscopate?
Background: Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGIH) is a commonly seen complaint in the ED. Currently, endoscopy is the standard therapy shown to not only help with diagnosis, but also risk stratify patients and potentially offer effective hemostatic treatment of acute nonvariceal ...