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A 24-year-old female G4P1 who is 9 weeks pregnant presents with abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding for 3 days. Vital signs include HR 115, BP 100/76, T 38.7, RR 13, SpO2 99% on RA. She is ill-appearing and has tenderness to palpation of the bilateral lower quadrants and suprapubic region. Pelvic exam reveals blood in the vaginal vault and foul-smelling discharge from the cervix with no other abnormalities. What is the likely diagnosis?

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Using thromboelastography in goal-oriented algorithms, clinicians may be able to optimize targeted transfusion therapies with specific coagulation factor(s) instead of empirically administering multiple components with potentially hazardous effects.

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As an EM physician, it is difficult to have working knowledge of the hundreds of different types of rashes that exist. However,

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The left bundle branch arises from the Bundle of His, and subsequently is divided into the anterior and posterior fascicles. The anterior fascicle is usually supplied by septal perforators from the Left Anterior

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Its 7:01am. Your shift in your department’s high acuity area is just beginning, and you are waiting to

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High lateral OMI

Elevation in I, aVL, +/- V2 with depression in inferior leads, especially III (South African Flag sign); occlusion of first diagonal branch or left circumflex artery
 
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