Taming the SRU

JULY 24, 2024

Population Patients were adult (18 or older) patients at a single academic emergency department who were triaged to a resuscitation bay and were not classified as a trauma, STEMI, stroke, cardiac arrest, or active labor. The physician was asked to do this at time point 15 minutes from patient arrival and 60 minutes from patient arrival.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 8, 2024

Dr Elyssia Bourke, based at Ballarat Base Hospital, is actively engaged in this area through her ongoing PhD research. Although this research is still in progress, it promises to shed light on effective strategies for managing these difficult situations. Organic Illnesses : Often overlooked, these can manifest as behavioural changes.

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The same goes for clinical operations and research – interesting, but there hasn’t been any “a ha” moment to illuminate her calling. Senior faculty face entirely different challenges; once-sharp clinical skills may have dulled over time, or the academic career hits a dead end – be it through stagnation, boredom, or waning interests.

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ACEP Now

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

2,3 In the 2021-2022 academic year, categorical (non-combined) EM residency lengths included 221 (80 percent) PGY 1-3 and 55 (20 percent) PGY 1-4 programs. A fourth year of EM training offers additional supervised clinical and academic experience. Residency length has varied since the inception of the specialty of EM. government.

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PulmCCM

JANUARY 6, 2025

Saudi Arabia is considered an authoritarian society, and internationally significant research projects have important political value to the monarchy. Instead of clinical micromanagement, in its new form it would incentivize continuous improvement in systemwide operational processes.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Moving the Needle on Fall Prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement. AEM November 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen (@KirstyChallen) is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Research Lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (North West England).

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 12, 2020

AEM December 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen (@KirstyChallen) is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Research Lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (North West England). Dr. Ladde is in an active academic emergency physician working at Orlando R.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At this point, the patient is taken to the operating room for a diagnostic laparoscopy. She was taken to the operating room and found to have a right tubal ectopic pregnancy with a pseudogestational sac. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Volume 23, Issue 4, 2009. Am J Emerg Med. 2021.05.071.

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ALiEM

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

One case report published in 1993 used RUQ abdominal ultrasound to identify septations (violin-string adhesions) and ascites to ultimately diagnose FHCS, later confirmed by serologic and operative evidence [2]. Diagnosis of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome by ultrasound. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 1993 Jul;50(2):159-62. PMID: 8405645.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Relative proportions of reported diagnostic indications versus clinical outcomes in a retrospective analysis of all CT imaging in 3 EDs over 1 year at an academic center. At the same time, newer research has shown that the diagnostic safety despite withholding contrast in abdominal pain may actually be overstated. West J Emerg Med.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2024

” They’re more likely to be found re-formatting and submitting research manuscripts in order to pad their CV. In short, it’s a mistake to picture medical students on their wellness days off just “kicking their feet up.” It’s time we talk about our identity because that’s what hangs in the balance.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Emergency Medicine research was and still is tremendously underfunded,” says John E. Dr. Prescott, currently retired, was Chief Academic Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2008-2021 where he says he worked with “every single school of medicine in the U.S.,” National Academics.

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Research remains encouraged within cardiology, and there will be an opportunity to develop a range of academic interests. There are often outpatient echo lists to scan a variety of patients from a range of specialities; from pre-operative patients, pre-chemotherapy patients to chronic cardiology conditions.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 4, 2024

The largest retrospective cohort study to date (Beyde et al.) shows that most will improve with empiric antibiotics.

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ACEP Now

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Today Dr. Calderon is known for her research into HIV and Hepatitis C prevention, but she didn’t start off on an academic track. She was 10 years into being an attending physician when she realized that to make an impact on the problems she was seeing in her ED, she would need a better understanding of how to do research. “I

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Downeast Emergency Medicine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Since that time, EM residencies have grown and evolved to provide academic support and training for graduating medical students interested in pursuing a career in the field. Don’t rely on third year rotations to provide enough exposure to EM; independently seek out EM-based electives, shadowing experiences, and research.

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PulmCCM

APRIL 1, 2024

Any longer-term benefits remain unknown, due to a paucity of research. Ultrasound guidance during CVC placement has been a recommended practice since 2001 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with multiple professional societies echoing that recommendation in the following decade. Is this safe?

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RebelEM

DECEMBER 19, 2022

While many healthcare systems across the world operate in a similar fashion, the United States does not. If you work in a tertiary academic center with a catheterization lab and/or ECMO immediately available, the application of a second defibrillator may not be immediately needed. REFERENCES: Cheskes S, et al.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

Every month we ask some of our friends from PERUKI (Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland) to point out something that has caught their eye. There were limitations to this study in that only a single academic institution was observed, and retrospective data could create data bias. Ann Emerg Med. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.01.016

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

It is a 11:39 minute film, by Walter Reid Army Institute of Research Production of experimental research done by Peter Safar, MD, and associates, at Baltimore City Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology. Research: an integral function of anesthesiology department. Founded first ICU that was multi-disciplinary.

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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.,

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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.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Universities have abandoned academic pursuits and desperately try to prostitute themselves to Pharma, to acquire enough cash to buy up regional practices, and further their monopoly. We don’t operate on everyone with appendicitis. We are employees working for the worst administrators imaginable.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 6, 2025

They all used different ultrasound devices with varying levels of operator training. If a well-child had a sudden cardiac arrest with no downtime before good CPR was started, I’m sure everyone would be doing a fairly long resuscitation effort regardless of this research. Six studies met the inclusion criteria. Salhi, Melissa A.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2025

By Leslie Bienen Since the NIH order on February 7 th capping indirect funds to grantees at 15%, the “outrage machine” that is X is filled with mostly fact-free criticisms of the NIH and academic research. Finding a weak NIH-funded study and tweeting it does not prove that NIH funds mostly bad research.

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