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Background rates of adverse events of special interest for COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring in the United States, 2019-2020
CONCLUSION: AESI background rates varied by database and demographics and fluctuated in March-December 2020, but most returned to pre-pandemic levels after May 2020. It is critical to standardize demographics and consider seasonal and other trends when comparing historical rates with post-vaccination AESI rates in the same database to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine safety.PMID:36404170 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.003
Source: Vaccine - November 20, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Keran Moll Bradley Lufkin Kathryn R Fingar Cindy Ke Zhou Ellen Tworkoski Chianti Shi Shayan Hobbi Mao Hu Minya Sheng Jillian McCarty Shanlai Shangguan Timothy Burrell Yoganand Chillarige Jeff Beers Patrick Saunders-Hastings Stella Muthuri Kathryn Edwards Source Type: research

Debilitating Headache after an Excited Reaction
​BY GREGORY TAYLOR, DO, & MATTHEW WARPINSKI, DOA 35-year-old man with a history of uncontrolled hypertension and medical noncompliance was brought to the emergency department by EMS complaining of a headache. The family said the patient was watching football and developed an acute headache after he stood up screaming in excitement.His family said he had not taken his blood pressure medication for years. He was afebrile, his blood pressure was 245/129 mm Hg, his respiratory rate was 18 bpm, his heart rate was 68 bpm, and he weighed 340 pounds. The patient was obtunded with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 4 and was subse...
Source: The Case Files - November 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: research