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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. g/kg/d for someone who is starting at 75 kg (or 165 lb).

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Underneath

StorytellERdoc

Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. He appeared relaxed on his medical cot, lying back at 45 degrees, facing the room's door, his legs comfortably extended in front of him and his gown tied correctly behind him. Another cough.

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Test for drink spiking in ERs should be used to reduce psychological distress, says new study

Medical Xpress

More should be done to help victims of suspected spiking attacks process the psychological trauma of the event by testing patients who arrive at the hospital intoxicated, say the authors of a new study titled, "Drink and injection spiking: how to approach an increase in presentations?" published in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

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Fleece Pajama Bottoms 2019

StorytellERdoc

I can't pinpoint the moment exactly, but several years ago I began to notice that many of our ER patients were presenting for treatment wearing nice fluffy fleece bottoms. Most of these earlier bottoms for the younger patients were of superheroes and childhood figures, like kitties and ponies. Little Pony is my favorite!"

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The Witness

StorytellERdoc

The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. We continued our efforts to stabilize this patient as we awaited cardiology's arrival.

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A Family's Cry.

StorytellERdoc

"The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. The loss of one child during any shift in the ER is devastating. These patients were brought to our ER in multiple rigs that could never travel fast enough in these circumstances. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself." It just couldn't be.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law

CDC’s proposed 2022 practice guideline takes a more flexible, patient-specific approach relying on clinicians’ judgment rather than applying “inflexible standards of care across patient populations.” Proposed 2022 CDC Practice Guideline, 7,839. Purpose of the Proposed Guideline. The guideline is neither law, regulation nor policy.