The Skeptics' Guide to EM

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Date: October 2, 2024 Reference: Paxton et al. Headpulse measurement can reliably identify large-vessel occlusion stroke in prehospital suspected stroke patients: Results from the EPISODE-PS-COVID study. AEM Sept 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Westafer an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School – Baystate.

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EMCrit

OCTOBER 5, 2024

When you need to temporize orbital compartment syndrome, there is markedly easier way than Lateral Cantholysis EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Authors: Devin Morris, MD (EM Resident Physician, UT Southwestern – Dallas, TX); Samia Farooqi, MD (Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern – Dallas, TX) // Reviewed by: Sophia Görgens, MD (EM Physician, BIDMC, MA), Cassandra Mackey, MD (Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School); Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK); Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) Welcome to EM@3AM, an emDOCs series designed to foster your working knowledge by providing an expedited review of clinical basics.

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Thinking Critical Care

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Here, Sara Crager takes a few minutes to discuss the hemodynamic interfaces with me. Over the next months, I’ll be picking the brains of my co-authors for the fantastic angles they can all bring to our “Trilogy in 4 Parts” (creative title by of course @EMnerd) which we all feel can be a really useful mental model for both learners and veterans and even better for patients!

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JournalFeed

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 30 – Oct 4, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed : In adult patients with sepsis, empiric use of vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam compared to vancomycin and cefepime, when anti-anaerobic coverage was not clinically indicated, was associated with a 5% increase in mortality.

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