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SGEM#428: Don’t Worry, Be Happy – The Safety of Nitroglycerin Administration in RVMI

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

February 2023 Date: January 24, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rupinder Sahsi is a fellow EBM enthusiast with academic appointments at McMaster University and Wright State University who works as an emergency physician in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Fanaroff et al looked at the ACC/AHA guidelines from 2008-2018 [4]. Emerg Med J.

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Can we trust clinical trials from China?

PulmCCM

Medical academics are under immense pressure to publish papers, especially in higher-impact journals. And that’s in the Western world, where the idea of academic integrity was invented and (despite prominent deviations) cultural norms of fair play and neutral rules still tend to govern most collaborative activity in the public sphere.

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Amikacin for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (AMIKINHAL trial)

PulmCCM

ICUs, and a popular research focus for academics, generating a steady stream of papers. In 2008, the U.S. You don’t hear much about ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) anymore. It used to be highly prevalent in U.S. Then, in 2009, the condition disappeared completely. Just kidding!

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ECG Pointers: STEMI Equivalents from the American College of Cardiology

EMDocs

De Winter Sign [4,6] First described in 2008 this pattern be seen in proximal left anterior descending artery occlusion and should be evaluated by emergent angiography. de Winter RJ, Verouden NJ, Wellens HJ, Wilde AA; Interventional Cardiology Group of the Academic Medical Center. 2008 Nov 6;359(19):2071—2073. Ann Emerg Med.

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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. Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine , 18 (10), 1022–1026. Marasco, S., Hoyle, R., & Kossmann, T. Injury , 39 (1), 9–20. link] Givens, M.

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Another myocardial wall is sacrificed at the altar of the STEMI/NonSTEMI mass delusion (and Opiate pain relief).

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Academic Emergency Medicine 27(S1): S220; May 2020. To illustrate the spectrum of ECG findings — the authors included in their 2008 NEJM manuscript a composite picture taken from 8 representative tracings of patients in their study who manifested deWinter T waves. de Winter et al in N Engl J Med 359:2071-2073, 2008.

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The Latest In Critical Care, 9/23/24 (#57)

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China’s New Policy on Research Evaluation, Max Planck Institute Five ways China must cultivate research integrity, Nature , November 2019 Analysis of doctoral graduates' attitudes toward academic misconduct and its causes, Wangfang Data, 2008 Nearly half of US Chinese student dismissals due to “academic dishonesty”, The PIE, September (..)

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