Science Based Medicine

MARCH 17, 2024

Doctors portrayed those who tried to avoid the virus as pathetic, disordered weaklings, afflicted by irrational panic, fear, and anxiety. It only makes sense if you remember one thing, they wanted you infected. The post Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, April 2021: “The Central Problem Right Now I Think Is The Fear That People Still Feel About COVID.” first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 17, 2024

Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with a 15 pack-year smoking history presented to his primary care physician's office complaining of intermittent headache. He also complained of intermittent mild chest pain radiating into into both shoulders and his back, as well as occasional unexplained sweating. (Although radiation into the left arm is most classic for coronary ischemia, radiation into both arms is actually modestly more predictive ).

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Board Bombs

MARCH 17, 2024

Who loves taking care of neonates? [no hands raise]. What about taking care of sick neonates? Crickets. Neonates with surgical problems?? Come on! Want to experience the greatest in board studying? Check out our interactive question bank podcast- the FIRST of its kind here. Cite this podcast as: Briggs, Blake; Husain, Iltifat. 216. Neonatal TEF: All Bottled up.

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Greater Sydney Area HEMS

MARCH 17, 2024

Welcome back to The Sydney HEMS Debrief, now on episode 13. Today we are talking about the PreCare trial, currently underway here in Sydney. This feasibility trial – a first for Sydney – concerns placing patients suffering out of hospital cardiac arrest onto potentially life-saving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy in the field, before transporting them to definitive care.

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Stop and Think

MARCH 17, 2024

I am in Copenhagen and Aarhus speaking about medical evidence. One of my talks will argue that cardiologists should treat obesity. This morning I received an email from a cardiologist who is struggling with the new data on the GLP-1 agonist drugs. It’s a timely note—as Copenhagen is home of Novo Nordisk, the makers of semaglutide.

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Pediatric Education

MARCH 17, 2024

Patient Presentation A 3-year-old male came to clinic who was not using his arm after playing with his older sister about 2 hours previously. She said that she had been pulling on his left arm and then he cried and stopped moving it. The grandmother who had been taking care of the child brought the child to clinic. The parent provided history by phone and noted that the boy had had radial head subluxation of the same elbow about 10 months previously and it had been reduced in the urgent care set

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Emergency Medicine Education

MARCH 17, 2024

Ibuprofen has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and fever-reducing effects. Although studies have investigated the proper dosage of ibuprofen as a pain reliever, the optimal dose for each specific effect is not thoroughly studied. In a study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Motov et al. examined various dosages of ibuprofen as a pain reliever.

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