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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

A 2015 Nature (Pediatric Research) paper by Nils J. Bergman summarizes a body of research that confirms the benefits of sleeping on the belly. Effects of prone and supine sleep positions on sleep state and stress responses in mechanically ventilated preterm infants during the first postnatal week (data from Ying-Ju Chang et al , 2002).

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Did Not Wait – DNW

Don't Forget the Bubbles

” Previous research recognises that long waiting times increase the number of patients who leave the ED before medical review, though much of this is based on the adult population. There was a disproportionate number of DNWs on Sundays, and if they presented between 4 pm and midnight, A 2002 Canadian study by Goldman et al.,

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Clinical Conundrums: Do We Need to Order a CT for Every Patient with Renal Colic?

RebelEM

Research from our very own SIUH department of radiology recommended that contrast-enhanced CT scans can safely exclude obstructive urolithiasis just as well as noncontrast CTs. 2002; 225(2):441-449. When you are using CT imaging, a CT with IV contrast is preferred. 2011; 18(7):699-707. Gottlieb RH, La TC, Erturk EN, et al.

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SGEM#257: EMTALA – It’s the Law of the Land

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Civil Monetary Penalties Resulting from Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Involving Psychiatric Emergencies, 2002 to 2018. Civil Monetary Penalties Resulting from Violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Involving Psychiatric Emergencies, 2002 to 2018.

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SGEM#275: 10th Avenue Freeze Out – Therapeutic Hypothermia after Non-Shockable Cardiac Arrest

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NEJM Oct 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Laura Melville (@lmelville535) is an emergency physician in Brooklyn, New York, is a part of the New York ACEP Research Committee, ALL NYC EM, and is the NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Resident Research Director. She had a witnessed arrest, and CPR was initiated by bystanders.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 1/22/24 (Issue #26)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival.

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Inferior Hyperacute T-waves

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

To diagnose inferior MI, there must always be reciprocal ST depression or T-wave inversion or both in lead aVL (see abstract of our research below). Research presented at 2011 SAEM in Boston. Methods : We searched the catheterization laboratory database for all cases coded as acute Inferior STEMI from January 2002 through March 2008.

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