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The Broselow-Luten System

Pediatric EM Morsels

Bowen 2016] Moral of the Morsel: Weight Matters! Academic Emergency Medicine, 14: 500-501. [Khouli 2015] In South Sudan, the Broselow system overestimated weight by 26.6% in malnourished children and by 16.6% in non-malnourished children. x exp[0.02 x exp[0.02 MDs for MDs! J Pediatr Nurs. 2012;27(4):416-420. doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2012.04.009

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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. Emerg Med J. Emerg Med J. They found 26 guidelines with 2,930 recommendations.

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"Sepsis bundles": No good evidence of benefit

PulmCCM

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has consistently opposed SEP-1 since at least 2016. If such a study were conducted at major academic medical centers, high-quality care would be expected with or without the bundle requiremen. . “thoracic” society has not taken a formal position that we are aware of.

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To Treat or Not to Treat

Sensible Medicine

For many doctors in academic medicine, publishing in peer reviewed journal is an important part of their careers. People can rise through the academic ranks as gifted clinicians, creative and effective educators, and talented administrators. I’ll end this piece in the same way Vinay and I finished our article in 2016.

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Proning for ARDS

Northwestern EM Blog

Academic Emergency Medicine. Proning makes the heart rest against the sternum, and the diaphragm is displaced inferiorly. This change in positioning of mediastinal structures allows for increased distention of the posterior lung (Koulouras et. Should we prone non-intubated patients in the ED? 2020; Koulouras et. Strayer, R.J., Levitan, R.

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

PulmCCM

2016 Sep 20;11(9):e0163293. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02426-2016. PMID: 2675713. Ahmadi Z, Sundh J, Bornefalk-Hermansson A, Ekström M. Long-Term Oxygen Therapy 24 vs 15 h/day and Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163293. PMID: 27649490; PMCID: PMC5029935. Sundh J, Ahmadi Z, Ekström M.

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SGEM#323: Mama I’m Comin’ Home – For Outpatient Treatment of a Pulmonary Embolism

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Literature from the USA reports that 90% of patients diagnosed with PE are admitted ( Singer et al 2016 ). Date: March 16th, 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia.