Discharge Tachycardia: Remember the Big 4 and Don’t Play with Fire
A 61-year-old male with diabetes mellitus presented with generalized malaise, low grade subjective fevers. Review of systems…
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Discharge Tachycardia: Remember the Big 4 and Don’t Play with Fire
A 61-year-old male with diabetes mellitus presented with generalized malaise, low grade subjective fevers. Review of systems... -
Case Report: Murine Typhus Presents as Severe Pneumonia and Sepsis
A 29-year-old Hispanic American man with no significant medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with... -
2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More
Every year, the hopeless task of keeping up with the medical literature grows even more unattainable. Will...
Case Report: Murine Typhus Presents as Severe Pneumonia and Sepsis
A 29-year-old Hispanic American man with no significant medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with…
2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More
Every year, the hopeless task of keeping up with the medical literature grows even more unattainable. Will…
Settling the Cefepime versus Piperacillin-Tazobactam Debate
If you work in the emergency department, you’re out there in the trenches “suspecting sepsis” on a…
Updates in the Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction secondary to a dysregulated host response to an infection; an estimated…
Diagnosing Sepsis, the Next Generation
Whether in the context of febrile illness, mild delirium, or the dreaded “weak and dizzy,” sepsis lurks…
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Creates COVID-19 Guideline
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on Sept. 7, 2021, and was accurate at that time. Because…
ACEP Calls for Revisions to SEP-1 Bundle
In early September, ACEP signed a letter to the National Quality Forum calling for the Severe Sepsis…
ACEP Sepsis Task Force Report Delivers Key Insights
Perhaps no group of clinicians knows more about diagnosing and treating sepsis than emergency physicians. We routinely…
Breaking Updates in Critical Care and Stroke
Early this year, two important conferences outside our specialty unveiled a spate of new findings whose impact…