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When Studies Can't Answer an Important Question (but are still published)

Sensible Medicine

Surgeons can operate on TR to either repair or replace the valve. But it’s a tough operation with high risk to the patient. Design of the Experiment: An important question in cardiology is if and when to operate on patients with TR. Sham operations are tough to do because of the ethical challenges.

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Pet Peeve: Conflicts Of Interest

The Trauma Pro

And even if you firmly believe you can’t be swayed, you can’t change the basic operating system in your brain. These can significantly improve one’s academic rank, job security, financial status, and more. Can Med Assn J, 170(4):477-480, 2004. Your behavior will change. What if the gift is not so small?

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Episode 19: Surgical Airway

PHEM Cast

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine , 22 (8), 908–914. Cricothyrotomy performed with the Melker set or the QuickTrach kit: procedure times, learning curves and operators’ preference. E., & Chima, R. link] Bennett, J. C., & Sankar, A. H., & Welch, T.

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Episode 25: Tension pneumothorax 2

PHEM Cast

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine , 11 (2), 211–213. Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Pleural decompression and drainage during trauma reception and resuscitation. Injury , 39 (1), 9–20.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. They recommend synovial joint aspiration and analysis for bacteria (and leukocytes) to diagnose SANJO [28].

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. " established that exhaled air was a satisfactory gas for resuscitation.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Academic Emergency Medicine., Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003 Volume 10, Number 5 539-540. Risk-score performance was measured by comparing the proportions of patients with arrhythmias at various levels of the score and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Thiruganasambandamoorthy, V., Sivilotti, M., Mukarram, M.,