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Do Ondansetron Prescriptions Reduce Pediatric Return Visits for Nausea and Vomiting?

Background: Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a very common emergency department (ED) presentation, with “approximately 1.5 million pediatric outpatient visits and 200,000 admissions” each year (Benary).   Treatment for AGE is mainly supportive, utilizing rehydration therapy and antiemetic medications.  One common and ...

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Abdominal and GastrointestinalPediatrics

COVID-19: An EBM Take

The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.  The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and on March 11th, 2020, the outbreak was declared a global ...

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Infectious Disease

Pearls from ResusX Rewired 2020

From Oct 6th – 8th, 2020, Haney Mallemat (@CriticalCareNow) and his team put on an absolutely amazing online critical care conference called ResusX Rewired.  ResusX is a conference designed by resuscitationists to provide clinicians with the most up to date ...

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CardiovascularEndocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and ElectrolytesInfectious DiseaseProcedures and SkillsResuscitationThoracic and RespiratoryToxicologyTrauma

The DIFOCCULT Trial: Time to Change from STEMI/NSTEMI to OMI/NOMI?

Background: Prior to the discovery of thrombolytics, clinicians could only observe their patients completing their myocardial infarctions and then classify them according to whether their subsequent ECGs developed Q waves. When trials showed a clear survival benefit with thrombolytics (especially ...

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Cardiovascular

Out-Of-Hospital TXA for TBI

Background: The CRASH-2 trial, published in 2010, showed a survival benefit for patients with traumatic hemorrhage who received TXA compared to placebo.  TXA has become standard practice in many settings as a result of this data. However, patients with significant ...

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Trauma

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