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Medical Category: Toxicology
REBEL Core Cast 28.0 – Conference Pearls
Take Home Points No palpable pulse does not equal no perfusion. We aren’t great at feeling pulses Patients with moderate to severe signs and symptoms of lithium toxicity should be considered for hemodialysis Always consider serious causes of back pain …
Rebellion in EM 2019: Suboxone for Opioid Addiction via Salil Bhandari, MD
Background: The role of the ED physician in helping stop the opioid epidemic is three-fold: safe prescribing practices, beginning suboxone administration in the ED as part of an ED/Community Suboxone program, and providing Narcan prescriptions to at risk patients. Most …
Vaping Associated Lung Injury (VALI)
Background: E-cigarettes or “vapes” are now the most popular tobacco product among US teens and are used by 20% of all high-schoolers2. Vapes are used to heat and vaporize a liquid (e-juice or vape juice) that may contain nicotine, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), …
Rebellion in EM 2019: Why Tramadol Should Be Called Tramadon’t…The Dirty Truth
Background: Tramadol is a centrally acting synthetic opioid analgesic approved for use in the United States in 1995 by the Food and Drug Administration. In 2014, the Drug Enforcement Agency classified tramadol as a Schedule IV controlled substance. ~41 million …