EMDocs

JANUARY 8, 2025

Authors: Lloyd Tannenbaum, MD (EM Attending Physician, Geisinger Wyoming Valley, PA); Mai Saber, DO (EM Attending Physician, Hackensack University Medical Center, NJ); Rachel Bridwell, MD (EM Attending Physician, Charlotte, NC) // Reviewer: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Hello and welcome back to ECG Pointers, a series designed to make you more confident in your ECG interpretations.

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EKG/ECG EMS Academics Emergency Department 75

Life in the Fast Lane

JANUARY 8, 2025

Chris Nickson Come join the 2025 Clinician Educator Incubator! Expressions of interest are now open for the sixth Clinician Educator Incubator - EOIs close Feb 10th 2025.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 8, 2025

Nursing homes should serve as sanctuaries of care, compassion, and safety for the elderly and vulnerable. Yet, abuse within these settings remains a pervasive and often hidden crisis, impacting countless individuals worldwide. Alarmingly, approximately 1 in 6 individuals aged 60 or older have experienced some form of abuse in community settings, including nursing homes, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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NRC Health

JANUARY 8, 2025

The NRC Health 2025 Pediatric Collaborative is truly a cant-miss experience, with exceptional presentations that will stir innovative ideas. Check out a preview of one of the sessions! The post Peds Collab Preview | Join NRC Health experts for an interactive workshop appeared first on NRC Health.

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Pediatrics 52

ECG Guru

JANUARY 8, 2025

Sometimes in a simple 1-lead ECG strip, various interesting ECG phenomena can be recognized, such as here. One could briefly look over the ECG, make the diagnosis of ventricular bigeminus and then be satisfied. On closer inspection, however, 3 questions arise: 1. Is the P wave behind the PVC a sinus node P or an atrial extrasystole? 2. + 3. after one comes to the conclusion that it is a sinus node P: why is it not conducted and why is the PP distance smaller when there is a QRS complex in betwee

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EKG/ECG 117

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 8, 2025

I have long followed the work of Dr. Margaret McCartney. She is a general practitioner in Glasgow, Scotland, writer, public speaker, and now PhD. She is a fierce advocate for evidence-based medicine. She holds highly skeptical views of screening for disease—which, to my surprise is quite common in the UK. Her recently finished PhD sought empirical evidence regarding declaration of conflicts of interest in the UK.

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PulmCCM

JANUARY 8, 2025

Trauma patients are routinely provided with high doses of supplemental oxygen—even when they are relatively young, relatively healthy patients without lung disease with normal oxygen saturations and PaO2. The origins of this practice are unknown, and no good evidence supports it; the theory seems to be that a larger oxygen reservoir could somehow provide reserves to regions of localized tissue hypoxemia, or to a normoxemic patient who abruptly deteriorates.

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