Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. 2015 Mar;18(3):352-9. They recommended synovial fluid analysis as essential to the diagnosis [30]. PMID: 25469944.

Infectious Diseases 89

Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 89

EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Improved Visualization: Video laryngoscopes allow for the use of standard or hyperangulated geometry, essentially allowing the operator to “look around the corner” on an anterior airway. Operators can manipulate the blade with less force to optimize the view, making it easier to identify and navigate the endotracheal tube into the trachea.

Emergency Department 92

Emergency Department Soft Tissue Injuries Airway Management Operations 92

Emergency Medicine Journal

MAY 23, 2023

Methods In this retrospective study, we included all adult patients who visited the ED of a single urban academic tertiary-care university hospital in South Korea for five consecutive years (1 January 2015 to 31 December 2019). The data set was randomly split into train and test sets (1:1) for internal validation.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Emergency Department Academics Operations 40

ACEP Now

MARCH 13, 2024

Unfortunately, many tertiary hospitals routinely operate at censuses of greater than 100 percent capacity, due to factors including insufficient acute care bed capacity, a shortage of nursing care, and misaligned incentive structures for health care more generally. Academic Emergency Medicine 22.2 2015):157-165.

Ethical Issues 52

Ethical Issues Emergency Department Operations Hospitals 52

ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The 2015 Edition Cures Act sought to promote “transparency, modern standards, and enhanced health IT capabilities by fostering innovation in the health care technology ecosystem to deliver better information to patients, clinicians, and other users.” 2015 Edition Cures Update fact sheet. HealthIT.gov website. Public law 114–255—Dec.

Documentation/Coding 52

Documentation/Coding Best Practices Ethical Issues Academics 52

PulmCCM

APRIL 1, 2024

Authors included 130 studies published 2015-2023, “to ensure that included studies were representative of current medical practices, including ultrasonography guidance.” Authors also had no information on operators’ experience levels. In skilled hands using ultrasound, CVC complications are much lower than 3%.

Ultrasounds 40

Ultrasounds Operations Outcomes Research 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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. March 27, 2015. " established that exhaled air was a satisfactory gas for resuscitation.

Resuscitation 40

Resuscitation CPR Emergency Nursing Basic Life Support 40

EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Jeff: And while it’s not exactly core EM, we’re going to briefly discuss indications for bariatric surgery, as this is something we don’t often review even in academic training programs. Nachi: Unfortunately this procedure is associated with a relatively high re-operation rate – one study found 20% of patients required removal or revision.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Sepsis Operations Dehydration 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

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.,

Emergency Department 52

Emergency Department EKG/ECG Outcomes Seizures 52

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

26 With regards to penetrating neck injuries, particularly those in which the platysma is violated, CTA of the neck has allowed a shift away from mandatory operative exploration of Zone 2 neck wounds (those in the mid-neck). DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012131 From NLM. (10) Bmj 2015, 351 , h5762. 10) Beume, L. Kaller, C.

Stroke 105

Stroke Radiology Radiology Emergency Department 105

Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

In the first publication from SCOT-HEART (2015), researchers reported that CTA clarified the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and led to changes in subsequent therapy—more preventive therapy and more coronary angiography. One would not expect this bias to be operational for mortality, which was not different between the 2 arms.

Outcomes 122

Outcomes EKG/ECG Documentation/Coding Academics 122