BRASH Syndrome
BRASH syndrome: Bradycardia Renal failure (either acute or acute-on-chronic) AV node blocker: Usually due to a beta blocker, verapamil, or diltiazem. Shock Hyperkalemia
Cardiology
Guidelines for reasonable and appropriate care in the emergency department (GRACE): Recurrent, low-risk chest pain in the emergency department
The multidisciplinary guideline panel used The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to assess the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendations regarding eight priority questions for adult patients with recurrent, low-risk chest pain and have derived the following evidence based recommendations
Low Risk Chest Pain
Talk to any emergency doctor worth their salt, and they’ll tell you that it isn’t the wildly sick patients who keep them up at night – it’s the ones they sent home. Read more
Push-Dose Vasopressors
Due to their rapid onset and short duration of action, push-dose epinephrine and phenylephrine can be considered for patients with spontaneous circulation requiring rapid normalization of hemodynamic parameters. Read more