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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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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Trusting RFK Jr. to Research Vaccines is Like Trusting a Hungry Python to Babysit a Kitten

Science Based Medicine

If RFK Jr. "researches" vaccines, he will certainly "discover" they cause autism. It's possible that this "research" will be used as justification to revoke authorization for vaccines. That's always been the endgame. The post Trusting RFK Jr. to Research Vaccines is Like Trusting a Hungry Python to Babysit a Kitten first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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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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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Not Your Average Eczema

ALiEM

A 3-year-old male with a history of severe atopic dermatitis presented for facial rash and hand pain. Mom had been applying Aquaphor and Vaseline several times a day. On the day of presentation, he woke up with a new rash over his face and hands which prompted the ED visit. He is up to date on childhood immunizations and is not prescribed any oral medications.

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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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