Ultrasound Gel
JULY 19, 2021
The GEL Jr. team is back with another great use for pediatric POCUS! You might not have known that you can actually use ultrasound to confirm that your endotracheal tube is in the right place! But how good is it?? [link] [link] The GEL Jr. team is back with another great use for pediatric POCUS! You might not have known that you can actually use ultrasound to confirm that your endotracheal tube is in the right place!
Thinking Critical Care
JULY 17, 2021
So it is with gradual amazement and a great sense of accomplishment that we have witnessed the remarkable interest that our field of acute care has taken in VExUS. This has also been tempered by the humility of experience, as all of us have seen fads come and go, and also because an interventional approach based on VExUS is not yet evidence-based, as the studies remain to be done, some being underway.
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Downeast Emergency Medicine
JULY 17, 2021
Background Renal colic is a commonly encountered diagnosis in the emergency department that is known to cause significant pain. In clinical practice, the initial goal is prompt pain management while simultaneously working to confirm the suspected diagnosis. Because of the severity and acuity of the pain associated with renal colic, opioid pain management has often been used.
JournalFeed
JULY 17, 2021
It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of July 12-16, 2021. We cover high risk pediatric bruising, urine concentration and UA accuracy, atrial fibrillation management, shorter NPO time for formula fed infants, and TTM2, which showed normothermia was as good as hypothermia post-arrest.
EMergucate
JULY 18, 2021
The frontal chest x-ray is from a 58 year old with left sided pleuritic chest pain. What can be seen?
Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA
JULY 19, 2021
Patients and physicians who have the devices listed below and use the mylife Cloud and/or mylife Mobile Application should update to the current version of the application and update account passwords ASAP. The app is not sufficiently protecting usernames and passwords making their data vulnerable to exposure/hacking. [link]. mylife website: [link]. mylife Diabetescare devices: Ypsomed mylife YpsoPump.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JULY 17, 2021
Date: July 14th, 2021 Reference: Pernica et al. Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The SAFER Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2021. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Andrew (Andy) Tagg is an Emergency Physician with a special interest in education and lifelong learning. He is the co-founder of website lead of Don’t Forget the Bubbles (DFTB).
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EMergucate
JULY 21, 2021
A 52 year old female referred by their GP with abnormal biochemistry results.
EMergucate
JULY 17, 2021
The ankle x-rays show talonavicular dislocation which is a rare injury.
EMergucate
JULY 19, 2021
A 52 year old female referred by GP with abnormal biochemistry results.
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