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Rebel Category: REBEL EM

ACEP Clinical Policy on Acute VTE 2018

The evaluation and management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the Emergency Department (ED) is fraught with questions: who should I evaluate, who should get a d-dimer, what should the d-dimer threshold be etc. Answers, unfortunately, are far less common. Due ...

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Hematology and Oncology

Abscess Management: The Reformation of an Antibiotic Nihilist

Abscess management has evolved somewhat in the 14 years since my residency graduation. The point at which antibiotics are likely to be more helpful than harmful is not always easy to assess, and evidence based expert opinion has flip flopped ...

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Infectious Disease

RSI, Predictors of Cardiac Arrest Post-Intubation, and Critically Ill Adults

Background:Intubation is a commonly performed procedure in the ED and ICU. We have discussed the physiologically difficult intubation before on REBEL EM.  One of the tenants in managing these patients is “resuscitate before you intubate.”  Two publications in the past ...

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Resuscitation

Dosing Sedatives Low and Paralytics High in Shock Patients Requiring RSI

Background: A series of tweets I sent out recently generated a visceral response from critical care clinicians the world over. I summarized my strategy of shock dose RSI as sedatives low and paralytics high (low dose ketamine, high dose rocuronium along with ...

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Resuscitation

Getting Things Done in a Hyperdistracted World

I have been accused by many of my colleagues and friends as being hypomanic.  They always wonder how I get so much done.  Do I function on 4 – 5 hours of sleep?  Is it the fact that I am ...

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