ACEP Now

JULY 6, 2023

Emergency physicians have become leaders in achieving cost efficiency in health care, predominantly through implementation of new processes and research findings, enabling us to achieve significant financial savings. CDC website : Sexually Transmitted Disease Guidelines 2021. However, such a view overlooks two critical facts.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Rather, the research protocol describes a prolonged six-week program of follow-up and repeated prescribing. Only exploratory outcomes provide some supporting evidence that opiate analgesia may improve return to activities and work, but these observations are weak enough they are best represented as equipoise for future research.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At the same time, newer research has shown that the diagnostic safety despite withholding contrast in abdominal pain may actually be overstated. However, until more research data is available on this, the results suggest that clinicians should use caution not to overly rely on NCCT to exclude serious intraabdominal pathology.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There’s no randomized trial data to support this practice, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC, whose recommendations CDC generally adopts) has advised against routine replacement of central lines as an infection prevention strategy. At some centers, central lines are regularly replaced (e.g.,

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Pediatric EM Morsels

JANUARY 19, 2024

CDC 2023] In 2021, there were over 2800 cases of congenital syphilis, tripled from 2017. CDC 2023] Pseudoparalysis of Parrot – Presentation and Exam Infant presents with lack of movement of one or both upper extremities, and will cry with palpation. Kocher 1996, Pereira 2017] Syphilis is on the rise in the US.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to the CDC, childhood vaccinations prevent about 4 million deaths each year. Regular sessions ensure that providers stay informed about the latest vaccine research, techniques for managing hesitancy, and evolving cultural contexts.

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PulmCCM

APRIL 10, 2025

They are rising, but the study (Rosa et al American Journal Infection Control 2025) only showed that they rose significantly at Jackson Health Systems in Miami from 2020 to 2023, which is not news (the CDC’s last tranche of national surveillance data included 2023). Most hospital microbiology labs do not reliably detect C.

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RebelEM

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or what the CDC recently renamed infection-related ventilator-associated complication (IVAC), is defined as a nosocomial pneumonia occurring on day 3 of mechanical ventilation that was preceded by 2 days of stable or decreasing ventilator requirements. 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 13, 2024

I was hopeful that our series on churnalism would change the world of healthcare and biomedical research journalism. They would consider if a doctor’s or researcher claim was plausible before gullibly reporting it (4). A plea to journalists covering healthcare and biomedical research. Oh well, at least we tried.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 28, 2024

These disparities cause the NICHD, AAP, and CDC to pour extra resources into disseminating the Safe to Sleep message to these groups. But these ideas have never been fully quantified (and are a neglected area of current research), and again, there seem to be costs to sleeping a healthy, full-term infant on her back.

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PulmCCM

AUGUST 7, 2023

Circulation) Yet CDC was claiming precisely the opposite in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report around the same time. Some have even suggested that CDC was aware of the concerning European data, and chose to publish an alternative narrative that better supported universal vaccination. (To health systems. university campuses.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Stefan Kertesz is Professor of Medicine at the Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where his work includes leading VA and non-VA supported research focused on homeless healthcare and issues related to pain and opioids. These higher quality studies usually achieved better outcomes.

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Medagadget

JUNE 26, 2023

Even though breast milk is best for NICU infants, a 2020 CDC report said that 13% of U.S. Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) store this donated breast milk in large freezers, ideally for no more than six to 12 months according to CDC guidelines. hospital NICUs don’t have stocks of donated breast milk. It’s a win all around.

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PulmCCM

JUNE 5, 2023

Register today for H&R 2023 Sucralose disrupts DNA in in vitro cell cultures, and is linked to leaky gut syndrome, according to researchers publishing in a toxicology journal. Read in NYT Dr. Mandy Cohen is expected to become the next CDC director after Dr. Rochelle Walensky steps down this month.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These guidelines present the best available evidence to support clinical decision making in the prehospital setting when TBI care may have the most significant impact on outcomes; they also establish a research agenda for future investigations. National Center for Health Statistics: Mortality Data on CDC WONDER. Prehosp Emerg Care.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

In 2008, a research study stated that if unvaccinated populations were to become exposed to monkeypox, then an epidemic could occur. According to the CDC, rashes typically last up to four weeks and it often occurs before other symptoms develop. The CDC reports that nearly all patients who experience the virus can expect to survive.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 7, 2024

According to a CDC study, VTE contributes to 10.5% In addition to discussing the diagnostic pathway and how it differs in pregnancy, we will discuss the treatment options available to both unstable and stable patients during pregnancy and the postpartum period. It is estimated to affect every 1 in 500 to 2000 pregnancies.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Emergency Medicine research was and still is tremendously underfunded,” says John E. Working closely with the CDC, I came to know a lot about rural medicine and how to improve it,” he says, guessing he may have been tapped for the committee through his work as principal investigator on more than $6.1 million in federal grants.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

ICUs, and a popular research focus for academics, generating a steady stream of papers. This made VAP hard to track, so CDC invented an odd new epidemiologic entity called “ ventilator-associated events ” (which do not require microbiology or chest film interpretation) as a proxy for actual VAPs. Just kidding!

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

DECEMBER 16, 2024

To meet CDC and WHO diagnostic criteria for pertussis, suspected cases must exhibit a cough lasting at least two weeks, creating a prolonged period during which patients may be infectious before a diagnosis is confirmed.

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Northwestern EM Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

In Japan, researcher used a cross-sectional study to analyze national suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers point to a sense of shared purpose, connections via video platforms, anticipated government aid, and mental health awareness campaigns as possible explanations for the stable rate of suicide deaths [3].

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children. Leonard JR, Jaffe DM, Kuppermann N, Olsen CS, Leonard JC; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Cervical Spine Study Group.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Research The Ten Commandments of Emergency Care Research (p59 ff ) From ACEP Mass Casualty Planning Management of Conventional Mass Casualty Incidents: Ten Commandments for Hospital Planning Lynn, M., Memon, A., & Kaliff, J. Memon, A., & Kaliff, J.

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PEMBlog

JULY 10, 2024

And, since we know from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey that many American teens are having sex with less than optimal condom use and infrequent STI testing, pediatricians everywhere should be thinking more about acquired syphilis infection, not just congenital syphilis. Thank you, Jen. These are highly sensitive tests.

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Medical Law

JUNE 20, 2023

Bicycle Helmet Safety Standards According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1000 Americans die, and over 130,000 are injured annually in bicycle crashes and falls. Research conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) demonstrates how bicycle helmets significantly reduce the risk of injury or death.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 2, 2024

While the mechanism of hypoglycin A is not thoroughly understood, research demonstrates that its metabolism leads to the production of methylene cyclopropyl acetic acid (MCPA-CoA), which inhibits long-chain fatty acid beta-oxidation and ultimately causes depletion of glycogen stores. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Toxicology Rep.

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EB Medicine

MAY 3, 2019

Jeff: If those figures seem a bit high, another CDC study found that in a general population survey of a quarter million people between 2006-2008, 9% met the criteria for major depression. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2006. (US Pretty big numbers. Jeff: Great point. US government report) 12.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2024

At the time, research did show that prior vaccination might have saved his life. Former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator shares a celebrity endorsement and suggests any critic is “a fool” Benefits The CDC recently outlined benefits to expect from repeat COVID vaccination in 2023-2024. But I will try to fill in.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain–United States, 2016. Neuropathic pain: redefinition and a grading system for clinical and research purposes. Comparative Analgesic Efficacy of Oxycodone/Acetaminophen vs Codeine/Acetaminophen for Short-Term Pain Management Following ED Discharge. Dec 2015;16(12):2397-404.

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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). CDC 2024) Generally, most ticks require >24 hours of attachment for there to be a risk of transfer of the infectious agent.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 25, 2025

NIH holds a powerful advantage—resources, data, and artificial intelligence (AI)—with the potential not just to reimagine but genuinely revolutionize scientific research. The little data utilized for research rarely reaches its full potential. Yet this gold mine is mostly fools gold. of studies made their data public.

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EMDocs

JULY 26, 2023

2 In 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the remaining stocks of variola virus to be destroyed or transferred to one of two designated biosafety level 4 facilities: the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia or the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia. McGraw-Hill; 2019.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 4, 2025

Today, I am happy to give space to Brad Rodu, a Professor of Medicine and an endowed chair in Tobacco Harm Reduction Research addressing our misunderstanding of the health effects of nicotine and cigarette substitutes. ” This one is a CDC quote , but that harm has only been seen in experimental animal studies.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. And it can be hard to figure out what immuno competency by disease and vaccine status really means. So how common is it for children to be unvaccinated in the United States? Unfortunately. And a specificity of 55%.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 22, 2025

2,3] In 2020, the CDC estimates that asthma exacerbations accounted for almost 1,000,000 ED visits and almost 100,000 inpatient hospitalizations. [4] Identification of asthma phenotypes using cluster analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010 Feb 15;181(4):315-23. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200906-0896OC.

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FEMinEM

JANUARY 26, 2021

Maybe the researchers did have my best interest in mind. So I did a little research of my own, and found that the history of exclusion went back decades. And that’s how thalidomide made it to women around the world, advertised as a safe cure for morning sickness, even though it had never been researched in pregnant women.

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Maria Yang, MD

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at this with a critical eye: Yes, according to the CDC, in 2022, about 40% of all children in the US were born to unmarried women. Yes, research supports the idea that an absent father results in behavioral problems in children. If current trends continue, we are heading toward social implosion.

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