Fri.Dec 20, 2024

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Mycoplasma Pneumonia in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Its been a BIG year for Mycoplasma! If your EDs have been anything like ours, youve been seeing more patients with Mycoplasma Pneumonia than you expected. Many kids are presenting to the ED for failure of outpatient antibiotic therapy of community acquired pneumonia, only to find out thats because they werent on the right meds! Let’s debrief on this atypical bug.

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Is AI the key to understanding patient experience data?

NRC Health

As AI continues to proliferate in the healthcare industry, health IT vendors are testing the waters with an emerging use case: understanding patient experience data. The post Is AI the key to understanding patient experience data? appeared first on NRC Health.

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Critical Care 2024 Year in Review (Part 3)

PulmCCM

PREOXI, BLING III, ASTER, ANNEXA, GRECO, plus reviews on PPIs, TRALI, nutrition, more

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Direct Oral Anticoagulant (DOAC) Reversal: Part 1

The Trauma Pro

A new class of anticoagulants, the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), were introduced in 2010. I started writing about them more than five years ago and was initially pessimistic about their safety profile in patients with head injuries. However, reversal agents and/or protocols were introduced, and the literature has borne out the fact that they appear to be safer than the old stand-by warfarin.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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The Futile Quest for "Why"

Sensible Medicine

Frequently, after a school shooting, The Onion publishes the headline , “‘No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens." 1 I find this a brilliant response. Admittedly, less brilliant is my response every time the media predictably starts reporting on a “motive”: “Why are people looking for a motive?

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Chest pain and rapid pacing followed by an unexplained wide complex tachycardia. Time for cardioversion?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Willy Frick with edits by Ken Grauer An older man with a history of non-ischemic HFrEF s/p CRT and mild coronary artery disease presented with chest pain. He said he had had three episodes of chest pain that day while urinating. The following ECG was obtained in the emergency department during active chest pain. ECG 1 What do you think? There is a lot going on in this ECG.

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