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Emergency Medicine Update January 2012

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Yosef is back with the first EMU of the new year – a one stop shop review of the current emergency medicine literature.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q29

CICM_SAQ

Blood transfusion in ICU: storage life and leukodepletion.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q27

CICM_SAQ

Confusion and fever in a hypertensive woman 10 days after an intrauterine death at 32 weeks.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q26

CICM_SAQ

Epidural anesthesia versus morphine patient controllled analgesia in a critically ill trauma patient.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q25

CICM_SAQ

The use of albumin-containing solutions in the ICU.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q23

CICM_SAQ

Procalcitionin in sepsis.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q22

CICM_SAQ

Equipment: oxygen mask, suction and rapid infusion catheter.

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q20

CICM_SAQ

Propofol infusion syndrome – risk factors, clinicial and laboratory findings, and management

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q24

CICM_SAQ

Questions A 33 year old female presented with high fever and abdominal pain. She has Gram negative bacteraemia and septic shock. The following is data from a blood gas analysis: 24.1.  List the acid-base abnormalities. 24.2.  What are the causes of elevated plasma lactate in sepsis? 24.3.  Name three (3) drugs (each from a different [...]