Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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To describe the advisors and the advice given to residency candidate interviewees interested in specializing in emergency medicine (EM). ⋯ Students considering specializing in EM often receive negative advice or have no assigned EP advisor. These factors may adversely affect entry into the field of EM.
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Given that clinical and laboratory studies suggest that ethanol and hemorrhagic shock (HS) potentiate traumatic brain injury (TBI), the authors studied the effects of ethanol in a model of combined TBI and HS. ⋯ In this TBI/HS model, ethanol administration decreased survival time, impaired the hemodynamic response, and worsened measures of cerebral tissue perfusion.