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Clinical Conundrums: How Long Should We Monitor After Giving IM Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis?

REBEL EM

Clinical Scenario: A 15-year-old male with a history of multiple food allergies presents after ingestion of a sandwich during a school gathering. up to 23% ( Lieberman 2005 , Rohacek 2014 , Tole 2007 , Grunau 2014 ). Biphasic anaphylactic reactions: occurrence and mortality Allergy 2014 Jun;69(6):791-7 Tole JW, Lieberman P.

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Clinical Conundrums: Should You Give the First Dose of Antibiotics IV Before Discharging Home on Oral Antibiotics?

REBEL EM

Clinical Scenario: A 45-year-old woman with hypertension presents with a productive cough and fever. This finding persists when looking at a number of other infections including skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) ( First10EM ), pyelonephritis ( Strohmeier 2014 ) and even bone and joint infections ( Li 2019 ). 1997; 24(3):457-67.

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Rapid Onsite FFR-CT Algorithm Helps Facilitates Clinical Adoption

Imaging Technology

A rapid and accurate onsite approach for determining FFR-CT should address challenges encountered in the clinical adoption of prior FFR-CT implementations,” wrote corresponding author Ronny Ralf Buechel , MD, from University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland. In this AJR accepted manuscript , 59 patients (46 men, 13 women; mean age 66.5

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Reporting the Unreported with Clinical AI: Lessons From Region Halland

Aidoc

This retrospective study featured a group of 2,960 cancer patients who had received CT scans between 2014 and 2019. Of the patients with reported VCF, only 26% were subjected to clinical management. Similar to the previous study, the analysis revealed that only 28% of iPE cases were ever reported. hours to 0.66 hours to 0.98

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Life Molecular Imaging, Sofie add Neuraceq availability out of Ohio

AuntMinnie

Neuraceq may also assist in assessing treatment eligibility for newly approved anti-amyloid drugs or for enrollment in clinical trials to further support drug development in neurodegenerative diseases, the company said.

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REBEL Core Cast 122.0 – Neutropenic Fever

REBEL EM

Read More: Infectious Disease Society of America 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines Life in the Fast Lane: Febrile Neutropaenia Uptodate: overview of neutropenic fever syndromes EMRAP: Risk stratification of neutropenic fever MDCalc: MASCC Score MDCalc: CISNE Score References: Ahn S, Rice TW, Yeung SJ, Cooksley T. Mullen, C. Raad, II, et al.,

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Bleeding After Image-Guided Breast Biopsies: Discontinuing vs. Maintaining Antithrombotic Therapy

Imaging Technology

This AJR accepted manuscript included 5302 patients (median age, 52 years) who underwent image-guided breast or axillary CNB between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2019. The authors also reported that no patient developed clinically significant hematoma after biopsy. Reichman et al.

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