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This White Paper was submitted by a multi-specialty group of intensivists and emergency medicine providers from Low and Low Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and High-Income Countries (HIC) with the aim of:
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This systematic review and meta-analysis found inconclusive and low-certainty evidence for any mortality benefit from #CPAP use for pediatric respiratory distress in LMICs. Adverse events were similarly inconclusive and of low certainty. https://t.co/FiwTnuhhb4
Various individual and systemic factors in LMICs elevate the risk of delayed treatment for acute coronary syndrome, with delay being associated with factors such as older age, female gender, illiteracy, living in rural areas, and financial limitations. https://t.co/DyMGGabZqX
I get the call from the emergency department.
“He’s was near death, but we stabilized him.”
They start reciting the story. It’s a well worn script we both know all to well.
“Unhoused,
Addictions,
Lost to follow up”
I feel it. That blend of anger & frustration I must control.
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