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Accidental Hypothermia

Rewarming Most important: Remove clothes Cover with dry warm blankets and bedsheets Bair hugger and/or Arctic sun (no real difference between the two. Bair hugger[...]

By Cameron Wangsgard • March 15, 2015
When is CT + LP indicated in the patient with HIV / AIDS

Quick tip for estimating CD4 count in ED CD4 < 200 significantly raises risk for opportunistic infections. Absolute lymphocyte count < 1000 correlates to CD4[...]

By Cameron Wangsgard • October 10, 2014
Pediatric GI Foreign Body Management

Author: Dustin Leigh, M.D. This is a lecture from Pediatric noon lecture series at the Mayo Clinic by Dr. Dustin Leigh, Emergency Medicine Attending Physician at[...]

By Cameron Wangsgard • October 6, 2014
Don’t Forget TXA in the Trauma Bay

Author: Michael  A. Schwarz, Pharm.D., R.Ph.   Tranexamic Acid (TXA) Tranexamic Acid (TXA) is a competitive inhibitor of plasminogen activation to plasmin and a noncompetitive[...]

By Cameron Wangsgard • September 30, 2014
Blood Pressure Control in Intracranial Hemorrhage

A summary of recommendations from the 2012 American Stroke Association guidelines on intracranial hemorrhage Until ongoing clinical trials of BP intervention for ICH are completed,[...]

By Cameron Wangsgard • June 12, 2014