Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Editorial Historical Article
Happy anniversary, ABEM! American Board of Emergency Medicine.
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To identify provider-based differences in the ED assessment and management of children presenting with uncomplicated, first-time febrile seizures. ⋯ There were significant setting-based differences in the evaluation and management of children with simple febrile seizures presenting to GEDs and PEDs.
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This article is adapted from a presentation given at the 1999 SAEM annual meeting by Dr. Peter Safar. Dr. ⋯ Current controversies, such as how to best educate the public in life-supporting first aid, how to restore normotensive spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest, how to rapidly induce mild hypothermia for cerebral protection, and how to minimize secondary insult after cerebral ischemia, are discussed, and must be resolved if advances are to be made. Dr. Safar also summarizes future technologies already under preliminary investigation, such as ultra-advanced life support for reversing prolonged cardiac arrest, extending the "golden hour" of shock tolerance, and suspended animation for delayed resuscitation.