American Medical Compliance
JULY 22, 2022
According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. However, there are more new symptoms to be aware of. These variants are highly contagious and are associated with cold and flu-like symptoms. These symptoms include night sweats, fever, and sore throat.
EB Medicine
JULY 21, 2022
In this episode of EMplify, Sam Ashoo, MD reviews recent updates on the following topics: COVID-19 Public health emergency extended Cases increasing Medications and Vaccinations available Pharmacists prescribing COVID medications CDC COVID Therapeutics website HHS COVID Therapeutics Locator Monkeypox Cases increasing Vaccination Testing FOAMED post on Diagnosis and Treatment PPE Science Direct article on Monkeypox 3I Tool Medication Shortages Benzodiazepines FOAMED post on benzodiazepine equival
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Clinical Correlations
JULY 21, 2022
By Hannah Kopinsky, MD Peer Reviewed Appendicitis is the most common reason for urgent surgery related to abdominal pain in the US, with a lifetime incidence of 8.6% for men and 6.7% for women. 1 The current standard.
Emergency Medicine Cases
JULY 19, 2022
Jesse McLaren guides us through 7 cases and explains his 3-step approach to diagnosing and managing Brugada syndrome in this month's ECG Cases blog. The post ECG Cases 33 Brugada Syndrome: 3-Step Approach to Diagnosis and Management appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.
American Medical Compliance
JULY 22, 2022
According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. However, there are more new symptoms to be aware of. These variants are highly contagious and are associated with cold and flu-like symptoms. These symptoms include night sweats, fever, and sore throat.
EM SIM Cases
JULY 19, 2022
This case is courtesy of Dr. Kelly Huang. Kelly is a 4th year EM resident at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver Site. She has an interest in medical education and wilderness medicine and is always looking for ways to combine the two together! WHY IT MATTERS Recognition of wide complex rhythms and their treatment options is an important skill, and often results in some anxiety in junior learners due to unfamiliarity and patient decompensation.
Ultrasound Gel
JULY 18, 2022
In this Special Edition episode, Mike and Creagh interview physician, entrepreneur, and author Larry Istrail discussing his recent book The POCUS Manifesto! Awesome discussion of the ups and downs of implementing, teaching, and researching POCUS. Part 1 of 2. [link] In this Special Edition episode, Mike and Creagh interview physician, entrepreneur, and author Larry Istrail discussing his recent book The POCUS Manifesto!
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Stop and Think
JULY 18, 2022
Dear readers, First of all, thank you for subscribing to my newsletter. I will continue to write here at Stop and Think, but I am also joining a new venture called Sensible Medicine. Thanks for reading Stop and Think ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In the past decade, my writing, podcasting and public speaking has been for healthcare professionals.
Emergency Medicine Ireland
JULY 18, 2022
Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re not so much looking at a chapter of Oh’s manual but at the physiologic concept of respiratory compliance. I approach this with a degree of trepidation as the probability of screwing this up is infinitely higher than simply translating Oh’s manual into podcast form.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 16, 2022
This middle aged male with h/o GERD but also h/o stents presented to the ED with chest pain. He had been at a clinic that day where he had complained of worsening GERD. An EKG was reco rded and interpreted as normal by the computer, the clinician, and by the overreading cardiologist. He received a workup by an NP with a diagnosis of GERD, in spite of the fact that 8-10 TUMS daily were not working.
JournalFeed
JULY 16, 2022
The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 11-15th, 2022. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Top Ten Tips Spoon Feed: Here are the top 10 points for optimizing vasopressor use in critically ill patients. Back to BaSICS Spoon Feed: There have been multiple publications since the original SMART and SALT-ED trials, including this Brazilian RCT that initially said fluid choice d
MDisrupt
JULY 19, 2022
How is AI used in Healthcare? Discover how to understand this technology, its challenges, future, and how to effectively use AI for your healthtech solutions.
EMergucate
JULY 19, 2022
The chest x-ray is from an adult patient with sudden onset of upper abdominal pain. What can be seen?
Emergency Medicine Education
JULY 21, 2022
There are bunch of rumors that come to play regarding what other medications we can use in cardiac arrest patient, Calcium, Sodium Bicarb, tPA,… A study published in JAMA tried to answer part of this question: “Effect of Intravenous or Intraosseous Calcium vs Saline on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Adults With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, A Randomized Clinical Trial” The study did not show any significant improvement on ROSC.
NIOSH Science Blog
JULY 22, 2022
This content can also be found on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about stresses to the U.S. healthcare workforce never seen before. Since early in the pandemic, reports have abounded of healthcare personnel (HCP) being infected, sometimes resulting in severe outcomes and death. As of July 20, 2022, there have been nearly 1 million COVID-19 cases and over 2,000 deaths reported to CDC among U.S.
Thinking Critical Care
JULY 16, 2022
So I’m finally getting around to listening to the #HR2022 lectures I hadn’t had a chance to prior to the conference – it gets busy – that so many are raving about, and this was a really good one. This dynamic NeuroCrit duo hit on a lot of really important principles, including one of my favorite myths, that of neuroprognosticating based on an ICH score.
EMergucate
JULY 17, 2022
The forearm AP x-ray shows fracture of upper third of ulna with an impacted radial neck fracture.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JULY 16, 2022
Date: July 16th, 2022 Reference: Lamontagne F et al. Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit. NEJM 2022. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Salim R. Rezaie completed his medical school training at Texas A&M Health Science Center and continued his medical education with a combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency at East Carolina University.
EMergucate
JULY 18, 2022
Question 1: PH = 7.035, that is sever acidaemia We have high pCO2 and low HCO3, this patient’s acidosis is most likely due to combination of metabolic and respiratory acidosis.
EMergucate
JULY 18, 2022
18 year old woman recently returned from overseas, she presented with fever and was diagnosed with ITP with platelets count … Continue reading →
EMergucate
JULY 17, 2022
There is right paratracheal density on this rotated frontal chest x-ray.
EMergucate
JULY 20, 2022
A 83 year old male presents to ED after a syncopal episode.
EMergucate
JULY 16, 2022
A 83 year old male presents to ED after a syncopal episode.
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