The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Addressing gender inequities: Creation of a multi-institutional consortium of women physicians in academic emergency medicine. Addressing gender inequities: Creation of a multi-institutional consortium of women physicians in academic emergency medicine. Women are less likely to be given senior academic promotions [4].

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PulmCCM

JUNE 12, 2023

Read in JAMA In The News Journal editors walk off the job: Forty leading scientists—the entire academic board of the journal NeuroImage —resigned to protest publisher Elsevier’s practice of charging academic authors over $3300 per paper to publish in the prestigious journal.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Her first set of vitals were documented: BP 116/57 Pulse 94bpm Respiratory rate 24/min O2 sat 90% on room air Temp 97F She had been cleaning a Jeep in the sun, and was sunburned. The physician documented “normal sinus rhythm”. The physician documented that she was “improved” and the patient was discharged.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

First, their qualifications are spectacular: academic accolades, research, publications, clinical medicine experiences prior to residency, even real-life professional experiences. Two things are clear about the internal medicine residents I get to work with. Require applicants to do tasks that predict whether they will succeed.

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Stop and Think

JULY 17, 2024

Reading only the guidelines is not enough, because guideline documents are merely one group’s take of the seminal trials. We enlisted the help of Mohammed Ruzieh, a trainee of Foy, and now an academic cardiologist at the University of Florida.

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RCEM Learning

MAY 20, 2022

Author: Rick Body / Editor: Govind Oliver / Code: / Published: 06/02/2020 In 2017 the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) published its Training Review. The NIHR Incubator for EC will support academic training within the field of EC, under the governance and direction of the NIHR Academy. What are NIHR Incubators?

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PulmCCM

JANUARY 6, 2025

This was despite a higher intensity of care in the visible-alert patients, who had more rapid responses, ICU transfers, code blues, intubations, and initiation of dialysis. This led the authors to speculate that qSOFA parameters were being documented more diligently on the wards randomized to screening.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

5 urban academic EDs, attending charts. Among patients with a primary provider documented in the chart, 30-day outpatient follow-up rate was 21.3% (n = 313). Clinical question: In adult patients with asthma discharged from the ED, what are prescription rates for ICS? 4000 visits amount 3000 patients.

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PulmCCM

APRIL 29, 2024

ICUs, and a popular research focus for academics, generating a steady stream of papers. And maybe, noticing all the fuss, some clinicians might have started coding for VAP slightly less often in equivocal cases. You don’t hear much about ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) anymore. It used to be highly prevalent in U.S.

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EMDocs

JUNE 9, 2023

We’re defining “protocol” here as a written document that provides oversight from the medical director about how to assess and treat patients. Reassessment and Documentation After any type of restraint is instituted, careful assessment, re-assessment, and documentation is required. Was the documentation complete?

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ALiEM

JANUARY 26, 2024

Ciprofloxacin has been documented as a cause of IgA vasculitis. Copyright Images and cases from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Clinical Images Exhibit at the 2023 SAEM Annual Meeting | Copyrighted by SAEM 2023 – all rights reserved. Case Question: What are common triggers for this diagnosis? Dermatol Ther.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 11, 2019

His practice is in trauma, emergency general surgery, and critical care with an academic interest in ultrasound and medical simulation. His practice is in trauma, emergency general surgery, and critical care with an academic interest in ultrasound and medical simulation.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” The authors continued, “Calcium deposits in breast arteries can indicate a problem.”

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Medagadget

JUNE 12, 2023

Scott Jung, Medgadget: Can you share a little bit about your background and how you ended up writing about the body’s electric code? I began to read academic papers I had never heard of, about electrical signalling in development and wound healing – not in niche publications but places like Nature.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 4, 2024

Know your audience, and tailor your presentation to them in terms of humor, pop culture references, and dress code Err on the side of making your presentation slightly shorter than the alloted time to allow room for questions. It is better to finish early than rushing through your presentation

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ALiEM

JANUARY 22, 2024

Fever was documented to be 102°F and was not associated with any chills or rigors. Copyright Images and cases from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Clinical Images Exhibit at the 2023 SAEM Annual Meeting | Copyrighted by SAEM 2023 – all rights reserved. Eschar: a clue to scrub typhus. 2011 Oct 18;183(15):E1152.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 21, 2023

On yesterday’s podcast , I talked with Bobby Yeh, an academic cardiologist who made a compelling case for enhancing credibility of observational research. Please do listen. Bobby is one of the smartest people in cardiology today.

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The Injectable Orange

APRIL 4, 2017

Quite simply, document your intended personal learning objective; identify a high quality resource that addresses this (article, workshop, conference); document a reflection on your achieved personal learning outcome. Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine , 21 (10), 1069–1082.

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ACEP Now

JUNE 7, 2023

ED leaders worked to develop new physician documentation and coding guidelines that needed to be implemented at the beginning of 2023. Academic Emergency Medicine. Commercial payers aggressively abused the No Surprises Act as a method to delay, downcode, and deny payment for emergency services. Maame Y, et al. 2020;27:600–611.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 24, 2023

But there had been two placebo-controlled drug trials that documented a 45-55 second increase in exercise time. In one of the most candid and entertaining pieces of academic writing that I have read, two ORBITA authors swatted these concerns away—often with good doses of British ridicule. This, too, was brilliant thinking.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2024

My current practice is a hybrid of academic and community sites, and I have worked in myriad community hospitals from busy ones to single coverage critical access hospitals. Sometimes there is a risk management staff member on call to support you in navigating challenging outcomes, including your immediate documentation.

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SheMD

JULY 27, 2023

Unequal distribution of domestic responsibility has been documented as a factor in the underrepresentation in female physicians in leadership roles in academic medicine as well as contributing to career satisfaction. How does this apply to us?

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. The American College of Emergency Physicians ( ACEP ) has a number of documents discussing APPs in the ED. Date: November 19th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia.

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RebelEM

JUNE 8, 2023

PMID: 36108346 Clinical Question: What is the efficacy and safety of peripherally administered push dose pressors for the treatment of acute hypotension?

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

3 These regulations have led to widespread practices of EHI, such as test results and clinical documentation, being shared with patients in real time. Training opportunities for documentation best practices should be employed. Code of federal regulations eCFR website. substance use disorder” rather than “drug addict”).

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 31, 2023

You find her at the desk, asleep with her face on the keyboard, patient documentation half finished. AEM March 2023 * Population: A convenience sample of emergency physicians from a single academic emergency department. As she tries to wipe the drool out of the keyboard, you ask how she has been sleeping recently.

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ALiEM

MARCH 11, 2024

There is limited literature documenting eye involvement and pictographic examples of its presentation. Copyright Images and cases from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Clinical Images Exhibit at the 2023 SAEM Annual Meeting | Copyrighted by SAEM 2023 – all rights reserved. ” N Engl J Med. Epub 2022 Jul 21.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

AUGUST 26, 2009

Published in Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. Methods : We searched the catheterization laboratory database for all cases coded as acute Inferior STEMI from January 2002 through March 2008. Also, remember the value of lead aVL: see this post. And this one Click here for a great case of developing inferior MI with hyperacute T-waves.

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Northwestern EM Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Document thorough skin assessment every nursing shift, and inspect weight-bearing ventral surfaces. Academic Emergency Medicine. Reattach EKG leads to back. Tilt patient into reverse Trendelenburg. Slight, intermittent lateral repositioning (20-30 degrees) should also be used, changing sides at least every 2 hours. Strayer, R.J.,

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Definitive diagnosis that ECG #1 is in fact VT is more than academic. As I discussed and documented in Lesson 1 of My Comment at the bottom of the page in the April 2, 2022 post of Dr. Smith's ECG Blog — certain patients may remain in sustained VT not only for hours — but even for days!

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PEMBlog

MAY 11, 2023

These were used by two independent reviewers to determine Neonatal Facial Coding System with pain scores. Acad Emerg Med, 2017 This was a single-center (one academic Pediatric Emergency Department) randomized double-blind trial of J-Tip versus EMLA – topical anesthetic (TA) cream for pain relief in 66 infant LPs.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 6, 2024

of patients with follow-up documentation, 70.8% (95% CI 62.9–77.9) The study included academic NICUs, which may reduce the generalisability of the results. Data collected were the worst values documented within the same calendar day as the blood cultures were obtained. Of the 74.9%

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 21, 2024

In both tracings — an exceedingly fast PMVT is documented. Distinction of PMVT vs VFib is an academic one in this case ). That said — there is no evidence on ECG of re-occlusion of the infarct artery. The arrhythmia starts with a PVC having a short coupling interval. Both PMVT and VFib occurred multiple times.

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Northwestern EM Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It is well-documented that ED physicians have historically high rates of burnout compared to other specialties as well as a high incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to the general population. STOP5: a hot debrief model for resuscitation cases in the emergency department.

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Resuscitation Emergency Department Academics Wellness 52

SheMD

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Some of the interview information may not be relevant during the 2020-2021 & 2021-2022 academic years. And if you worry about reporting a program because of retaliation, document all of it and submit after match or anonymously. Disclaimer: This post was written before the COVID-19 pandemic. This post contains affiliate links.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Triage documented a complaint of left shoulder pain. Academic Emergency Medicine 27(S1): S220; May 2020. The neighbor recorded a systolic blood pressure again above 200 mm Hg and advised her to come to the ED to address her symptoms. The patient presented to triage at around 10 PM. The patient said, "I just don't feel good."

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

What They Did: Retrospective, observational cohort study in a single high-volume academic hospital The ED had a 5 bed area used for ongoing management and resuscitation of patients who clinically deteriorate while boarding or while actively undergo a workup in other sections of the ED. J Crit Care.

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