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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct. Holiday CVS , 77 Fed. Complaint ¶ 62.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department. Therefore understanding these diseases, their presentations and their evaluation is critical for emergency medicine providers. On clinical presentation.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means. No, no, no.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. His hands were gone.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Heat stroke presents with dry skin, confusion, delirium, very high heart rate, low blood pressure, and body temperature above 40°C (104°F), risking organ failure and requiring immediate cooling. 40°C (101–104°F). Consider supporting Science Xs mission by getting a premium account.

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