St. Emlyn
DECEMBER 9, 2024
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Explore key takeaways from the DAS 2024 meeting, including airway management in obstetrics, ethics of training, challenges in critical care, and international practices. Insights tailored for emergency and anaesthesia professionals. The post Difficult Airway Society Meeting 2024 appeared first on St.Emlyn's.
ALiEM
DECEMBER 9, 2024
A 25-year-old female with no pertinent past medical history presented to an emergency department in Massachusetts with four days of generalized malaise, myalgias, congestion, low-grade fever, and a rash behind her left knee. The patient denied cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She lives with three roommates, none of whom were sick, and she denied any other known sick contacts.
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First 10 EM
DECEMBER 9, 2024
When managing hyponatremia, the primary concern (at least as far as I have always been taught) is osmotic demyelination syndrome. We are warned not to correct the sodium too quickly, because the neurologic outcome can be awful. However, demyelination is very rare, and apparently there is a lot of data that suggests correcting sodium too […] The post Big practice change coming?
Science Based Medicine
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Since the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for NIH Director, I've been seeing a suggestion from certain contrarian doctors for a a "randomized trial" of study sections vs. a "modified lottery" to determine which grant applications are funded by the NIH. Just what the heck is Dr. Vinay Prasad talking about? The post Are NIH study sections a waste of time?
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PEMBlog
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Pertussis AKA whooping cough is on the rise due to declining vaccination rates. The initial catarrhal phase has mild symptoms but is super contagious. Then you cough like forever. Lyrics [Chorus] cough cough cough hack Whoop! uh huh uh huh uh huh cough cough cough hack Whoop! uh huh uh huh uh huh cough cough cough hack [Verse] Pertussis made a comeback rapid spread, why the setback?
Don't Forget the Bubbles
DECEMBER 9, 2024
It is time to take a look at withdrawal syndrome and delirium and how to reduce them in children requiring intravenous sedation and analgesia within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Isla is a 2-month-old infant in the PICU. She has been ventilated since birth as she was found to have an antenatal defect, which required surgical repair on day three of life.
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