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The Study of the Week Is a Beautiful Example of Science Done Well

Sensible Medicine

Academic medicine sometimes gets it right. Neurologist Hooman Kamel from the Weil Cornell Medical Center in NY had an idea about atrial fibrillation and stroke. Stroke came when these clots moved northward to the brain. Kamel’s new idea about AF and stroke was that the main problem was primary atrial disease.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 9/28/23 (Issue #15)

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In most of these studies, diagnostic imaging was only performed on patients at higher pretest probability for PE according to Wells criteria or other risk stratification. In the new era of thrombectomy for ischemic strokes with large vessel occlusion, however, some early data suggested lower blood pressure targets might be advisable.

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Friday Reflection 41: Sometimes I Just Need to Complain

Sensible Medicine

She is admitted with suspected stroke. If I had it all to do again, there is no doubt that I would choose medicine in general and academic general internal medicine in particular, but occasionally we all have a bad week. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. I love my job.

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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] Being perfectly honest, not all the articles have aged well. to 0.88; P=0.007).

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Sniffing out Sepsis - Vibes vs Scoring Systems?

Taming the SRU

Ann Emerg Med 2024 Background Sepsis remains an increasingly common emergency department condition that is tied to higher morbidity and mortality across the United States as well as the rest of the world. They then tested the LASSO model using the remaining 20% of data to see how well it could detect sepsis at the same time points.

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The ECLS-SHOCK Trial: ECPR in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock

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bleeding, stroke, limb ischemia, and hemolysis). Many centers have attempted ECLS to achieve hemodynamic stabilization in this group of patients. The benefits of this strategy may be outweighed by the risk of the device-related complications (i.e. The evidence for this practice has been sparse until now. Zeymer HT et al. Control: 53.4%

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Academic emergency medicine 12.9 Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Aug;23(8):878-84. doi: 10.1111/acem.13014. Epub 2016 Aug 1. PMID: 27197686. Holmes, James F et al. Performance of the Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale in Children with Blunt Head Trauma.” 2005): 814–819. Chung CY, Chen CL, Cheng PT, See LC, Tang SF, Wong AM. 2008 Apr;39(4):1347-8. 107.498345.