Stop and Think

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I have changed my mind about a lot of things over the past two decades of practice. No change has been bigger than how I feel about preventing heart disease. The medical jargon here is primary prevention. (Re: preventing a first cardiac event). I will tell this story in three chapters. Chapter 1: What I used to think about primary prevention In years past, I interpreted the studies of primary prevention as only slightly positive.

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Greater Sydney Area HEMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the ninth episode of the Sydney HEMS Debrief series, we have the first half of a two-part episode! Join us as Sydney HEMS Senior Staff Specialist Dr Brian Burns discusses the recognition, aetiology and treatment of different types of shock in our pre-hospital trauma patients. Whilst pre-hospital clinicians may have a natural bias towards hypovolaemic shock secondary to blood loss, Dr Burns discusses the many mimics of hypovolaemic shock, and how it is crucial we remain mindful of other causat

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Pediatric Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

PediatricEducation.org is taking short Thanksgiving break The next case will be published on 12/4/23. In the meantime, please take a look at the different Archives and Curriculum Maps listed at the top of the page. We appreciate your patronage, Donna D’Alessandro and Michael D’Alessandro, curators.

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The Evolution & Medicine Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

New data and analyses suggests new explanations for the persistence of alleles that increase the risk of schizophrenia. A 2019 article by Liu, et al. suggested that rapid selection for cognitive and emotional traits during human evolution may have increased the risk of schizophrenia.

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University of Maryland Department of Emergency Med

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Hot off the NEJM press, published November 11, 2023: Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Myocardial Infarction and Anemia (Carso.

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Life in the Fast Lane

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Mike Cadogan and John Mackenzie Coudé tip catheter The coudé catheter has a curved tip and is derived from the French term “coudé” for “elbow.

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