The Trauma Pro

JANUARY 28, 2025

In 2021, an article was published (reference 1) that performed a systematic review of the literature from 2017 to 2020. Those results were not very impressive, especially considering the high cost of this drug. ” This is a very roundabout way of saying that it didn’t really work.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it is often overlooked that tickborne illnesses are among the most common travel-related illnesses globally (CDC Traveller’s Health 2017). 2017 Nov 3;11(11):e0006062. We frequently ask children and their parents if they have had recent tick bites when they present for fever after a recent camping activity.

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Science Based Medicine

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2017, Dr. Vinay Prasad said an anti-vaccine doctor was a "quack". What changed? The post Dr. Vinay Prasad 2025 = Dr. Kelly Brogan 2015 first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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The Trauma Pro

DECEMBER 6, 2024

e5-1386, 2017. References: Incidental appendicectomy with laparotomy for trauma. Br J Surg 62(6):487-9, 1975 Appendicitis following blunt abdominal trauma. Am J Emerg Med 35(9):1386.e5-1386, Systematic review of blunt abdominal trauma as a cause of acute appendicitis. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 92(6):477-82, 2010.

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The Trauma Pro

AUGUST 29, 2023

The University of Arizona at Tucson group analyzed the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) database on withdrawal of care from 2017-2019. Is it possible to identify the common factors that predict appropriate withdrawal of care? The authors included only patients aged 65 and older.

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Emergency Live

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the United States, in 2017, 33% of critical care fellows and 26% of critical care physicians were women, highlighting a significant […] The post Women Anesthesiologists and Intensivists: Their Crucial Role appeared first on Emergency Live.

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Emergency Live

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Commemoration of the Tragic Event that Shook Italy The Remembrance of the Tragedy and its Unfolding On January 18, 2017, a devastating avalanche struck the Rigopiano Hotel, located in the municipality of Farindola, at the foot of the Gran Sasso mountain.

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects an estimated 300,000 infants born worldwide each year and has a total estimated prevalence of 100,000 in the United States alone ( Piel 2017 ). VOE is often complicated by hypovolemia, making fluid administration a common intervention ( Lovett 2017 ). Lactated Ringer (LR) and 0.9%

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Emergency Medicine Journal

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2017, a LAD average population was ~170 000. Conclusion Austerity policies implemented in 2010 impacted less deprived local authorities, where emergency admissions and inequalities between neighbourhoods increased, while in the most deprived areas, emergency admissions were unchanged, remaining high and persistent.

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The Trauma Pro

JUNE 14, 2024

Am J Radiol 209:W360-@364, 2017. 2022 Sep 1;157(9):771-778. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.2770. PMID: 35830194; PMCID: PMC9280606. CT findings of traumatic bucket-handle mesenteric injuries. Multidetector CT of blunt abdominal trauma. Radiology 265(3):678–693, 2012.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

2017 Nov 16;377(20):1943-1953. Here are three pertinent articles he has published—note the first is from NEJM. Landry CH, Allan KS, Connelly KA, Cunningham K, Morrison LJ, Dorian P; Rescu Investigators. Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Participation in Competitive Sports. N Engl J Med. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1615710.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 28, 2025

MMR vaccine rates went from 70 percent in 2017 to 30 percent in 2018. Poverty, poor health care infrastructure, poor health literacy, a faith in traditional and alternative medicines, all coalesce to lead to an outbreak. News stories want to blame specific people, but academics generally want to understand how systems fail.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 28, 2023

. * Acetaminophen ( Williams et al Lancet 2014) * Muscle relaxants ( Friedman et al JAMA 2015) * NSAIDs ( Machado et al Ann Rheum Dis 2017) * Steroids ( Balakrishnamoorthy et al Emerg Med J 2014) * Benzodiazepines ( Friedman et al Ann Emerg Med 2017) Many non-pharmacologic therapies have also been tried with limited efficacy.

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PulmCCM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

According to a 2017 article in the MIT Technology Review , “scientists who publish in the top Western journals can earn in excess of $100,000 per paper.” ” At that time, the average salary for a university professor was $8,600 per year. Please share your opinion on this challenging issue below.

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Northwestern EM Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Over 1100 cases of Kratom only exposure were reported to the National Poison Control Center from 2011-2017. 2017 Jul 1;176:63-70. Epub 2017 May 10. Treating Kratom toxicity varies based upon the clinical presentation as well as severity of symptoms. Just over half of these cases required medical intervention. Grundmann O.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This included a novel UT measure—an adapted Physicians’ Reaction to Uncertainty scale collaboratively modified within our team according to Hillen et al ’s (2017) UT model. The questionnaire also included well-being-related measures (eg, Brief Resilience Scale) and assessed factors like doctors’ seniority.

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A large observational study of > 2000 patients found an association with fever at presentation and ICU survival for patients with severe sepsis or septic shock ( Sunden-Culberg 2017 ). Crit Care Med 2017; 45(4): 591-9. This may suggest a protective mechanism for fever. PMID: 22366046 Sunden-Culberg J et al.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 21, 2024

” I, then a 50-year-old associate professor of medicine, said those words over the phone to a friend late one night in 2017. By 2017, I had started to take a position that was uncomfortable for me, not because I didn’t believe it but because I knew it displeased others. . “I’m nervous. Why was I unsettled?

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ALiEM

APRIL 12, 2023

DOI 10.1016/B978-0-444-53632-7.01010-8 LeDonne S, Sengupta D. US Probe: Ultrasound Water Bath for Distal Extremity Evaluation. Alerhand S, Singh M, editors. emDOCs.net – Emergency Medicine Education.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

JULY 24, 2023

Methods Prospectively collected nationwide, population-based records concerning 166 538 working-age individuals (men, 20–68 years; women, 20–62 years) with OHCA between 2017 and 2020 were assessed. Results Among 149 300 OHCA cases, 1-month survival (2020, 11.2%; 2017–2019, 11.1% (crude OR (cOR) 1.00, 95% CI 0.97

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

2017 Sep-Oct;50(5):561-569. Epub 2017 Apr 19. A new 4-variable formula to differentiate normal variant ST segment elevation in V2-V4 (early repolarization) from subtle left anterior descending coronary occlusion - Adding QRS amplitude of V2 improves the model. J Electrocardiol. doi: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2017.04.005. 2017.04.005.

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Taming the SRU

JULY 3, 2023

2017-3068). 2017-0695) WBC count Absolute neutrophil count Procalcitonin (one model done without procal and one with) They repeated the same model for factors associated with IBI in febrile infants with UTIs. This definition of a positive UA and UTI were based on a prior PECARN study (doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-3068).

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

In a 2017 Lancet trial , 10,190 personnel from the UK military were randomized to post-deployment depression screening or no screening. Similar mental health services were available to both groups.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

APRIL 7, 2023

2017 Jan;26(1):108-115. Impact of the New American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Definition of Stroke on the Results of the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis Trial. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.08.038. 2016.08.038.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

2017; 4:91. 2017; 50(1):60-65. Mathis E et al. Pediatric Thermal Burns and Treatment: A Review of Progress and Future Prospects. Osuka A et al. Glycocalyx shedding is anhanced by age and correlates with increased fluid requirement in patients with major burns. Sebastian R et al.

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PulmCCM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

2017 Jul 13;7(7):CD004104. 2017 Aug 31;50(2):1602426. JAMA 2010 Retraction Watch The Truth about China’s Cash-for-Publication Policy, MIT Technology Review , July 2017 “Why Fake Research Is Rampant in China,” The Economist, February 2024 The End of Publish or Perish? Cochrane Database Syst Rev. Eur Respir J.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

pii: bcr-2017-220473. Selected references Dunphy L, Clark Z, Raja MH. Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) infestation in a child presenting with symptoms of acute appendicitis: a wriggly tale! BMJ Case Rep. link] [link] The post Threadworms appeared first on Don't Forget the Bubbles.

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RebelEM

JANUARY 9, 2024

Pneumonia 2017. Even better would be to see studies comparing one route to the other. Thorax 2007; 62(12): 1102-6. PMID: 17567657 Rae N et al. Oral versus intravenous clarithromycin in moderate to severe community-acquired pneumonia: an observational study. PMID: 28702304 Rojas MX, Granados C. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006(2).

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PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) expanded its prior 2017 guidance, now recommending strongly that corticosteroids be given for severe community-acquired pneumonia, and also suggesting steroids for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and septic shock of any severity.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

MAY 12, 2023

2017 Mar;24(3):308-314. PMID: 26297697; PMCID: PMC4680174. Ide K, Uematsu S, Tetsuhara K, Yoshimura S, Kato T, Kobayashi T. External Validation of the PECARN Head Trauma Prediction Rules in Japan. Acad Emerg Med. doi: 10.1111/acem.13129. PMID: 27862642.

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Core Medical Group

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in April 2017 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. These 3 simple lessons will help you land the best travel nursing job ever – whether it’s your first time or fifteenth time!

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 8, 2023

Wallach et al JAMA Intern Med 2017 , previously reported that subgroup claims are often not corroborated by subsequent studies and rarely confirmed. A subgroup analysis of the Lancet RCT showed that older, sicker patients with comorbidities and longer previous symptom duration recovered 2–3 days sooner.

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RebelEM

MAY 25, 2023

Ann Emerg Med 2017 [6] This was a retrospective database review of 7521 traumatic brain injury patients SBP target ≥90mmHg resulted in a mortality of 7.8% vs SBP target <90mmHg which resulted in a mortality of 33.4% Shock 2012. PMID: 23143053 Spaite DW, Hu C, Bobrow BJ, et al. Ann Emerg Med. PMID: 28559036 Holcomb JB et al.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Published 2017 Mar 28. Published 2017 Oct 12. Circulation. 2022;146(25):e483-e557. 7) Gibbison B, López-López JA, Higgins JP, et al. Corticosteroids in septic shock: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. 2017;21(1):78. 8) Schijvens AM, Ter Heine R, de Wildt SN, Schreuder MF. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019;34(3):389-403.

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ALiEM

JUNE 15, 2023

Elsevier; 2017. Convallatoxin, the primary cardiac glycoside in lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), induces tissue factor expression in endothelial cells. Vet Med Sci. 2021 Nov;7(6):2440-2444. PMID 34469053 Graeme KA. Toxic plant ingestions. Auerbach’s wilderness medicine, 7e. Nelson LS, Shih RD, Balick MJ. In: Individual plants.

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Emergency Medicine Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

1 The availability of these services in the UK expanded in response to a 2017 budget commitment of £100 million to enhance A&E services including the colocation of on-site GP services. 1 The findings are not surprising, as they align with international experience.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Blogpost, January, 2017. References / Further Reading: [link] [link] Effects Of A Communication-And-Resolution Program On Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims And Costs. Kachalia A et al. Health Affairs, Vol. 11, Nov 2018. Perspective: Don’t bend the rules for VIP’s. Pilcher CA.

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