The Trauma Pro
AUGUST 22, 2024
Okay, here’s another one! But it’s a doozy. It’s the most important one I live by. It ensures that you don’t get bogged down by habit, custom, dogma, ignorance, or just plain laziness. Question everything! If someone ever says, “but that’s the way I/we always do it,” or “that’s what the policy says,” or even “I read a good paper/chapter on this,” take it with a really big grain of salt.
NRC Health
AUGUST 22, 2024
NRC Health announces the acquisition of leading healthcare rounding technology company Nobl and a new strategic partnership with customer and employee experience management leader Medallia. The post NRC Health announces Nobl acquisition & Medallia partnership to advance healthcare experience innovation appeared first on NRC Health.
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EMDocs
AUGUST 22, 2024
Authors: Natalie Hernandez, MD, MPH, (Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine); IV Mirus, MD (Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center); Manpreet Singh, MD, MBE (Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine) // Reviewed by: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit You walk into a patient room to find the patient has brought a family member to interpret for them.
RebelEM
AUGUST 22, 2024
Background: Retinal artery occlusion (RAO) is a time-sensitive ophthalmic emergency that demands rapid diagnosis and intervention. Administration of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) within 4.5 hours of symptom onset appears to be the most promising approach for improving visual outcomes, supported by multiple studies and meta-analyses. 1,2 Intra-arterial (IA) tPA has also shown benefit but is less well studied. 3,4 It’s important to note that the available studies have severa
NRC Health
AUGUST 22, 2024
NRC Health debuted healthcare’s most comprehensive experience management platform and announced strategic acquisitions and partnerships to enable greater human connection across the healthcare journey. The post AI meets empathy: NRC Health launches first AI-enabled solutions to elevate healthcare experience appeared first on NRC Health.
EM Ottawa
AUGUST 22, 2024
Assessing patients with pleural effusions in the emergency department (ED) can be challenging and nuanced. This is largely due to the lack of guidelines around pleural effusions in the ED. In part one we focused on imaging, diagnosis, and management of parapneumonic effusions. In this second part, we will look at malignant and CHF-related effusions, […] The post By the Hammer of Thora: Pleural Effusions in the ED (Part 2) appeared first on EMOttawa Blog.
AED Leader
AUGUST 22, 2024
Every year, sudden cardiac arrest claims the lives of nearly 300,000 Americans, a staggering number that highlights an urgent need for prompt and effective intervention. At the heart of this lifesaving mission is the Automated External Defibrillator (AED), a portable medical device that has transformed emergency care for victims of life-threatening heart conditions.
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Ziqitza HealthCare Ltd
AUGUST 22, 2024
A common health condition that has gripped the adult population is the condition called hypertension. In this condition, blood rushes through the arteries extremely rapidly. The pace at which this happens is a lot more than the normal range, even when the human body is at complete rest. Hypertension can completely wear out the arteries gradually as time goes on and lead to severe illnesses like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease etc.
Emergency Live
AUGUST 22, 2024
The flames, fueled by strong winds, forced some 3,000 people to evacuate the facility A violent fire has upset the tranquility of a campsite in Canet-en-Roussillon, in the Eastern Pyrenees, in southern France. The flames, fueled by strong winds that blew at over 80 km/ h, forced about 3,000 people to evacuate urgently the structure, […] The post Fire ravages campsite in southern France: thousands evacuated appeared first on Emergency Live.
PHARM
AUGUST 22, 2024
Max McKenzie: Hero dad who tried to save son’s life on mission to stop tragedy happening to others — Read on amp.nine.com.
Emergency Live
AUGUST 22, 2024
The Bayesian shipwreck has caused the death of six people, including the well-known British magnate Mike Lynch The sinking of the luxurious sailing ship Bayesian off Porticello continues to hold a great hold on public opinion and cause debate among experts in the nautical sector. The recovery operations, albeit complex, continued without interruption, leading to […] The post Emergency at the beach in Marotta: couple may drown, doctors are missing appeared first on Emergency Live.
Ken Grauer, MD
AUGUST 22, 2024
The ECG shown in Figure-1 — was obtained from an older man with “CP” ( C hest P ain ) for the past 2 days. BP = 80/50 mm/Hg. Adenosine 6 mg IV was tried without response. QUESTIONS: How would YOU interpret this ECG? Your thoughts regarding optimal management? Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case. ( To improve visualization — I've digitized the original ECG using PMcardio ).
Emergency Live
AUGUST 22, 2024
Important correlation between paternal age and the likelihood of passing on rare genetic diseases to offspring revealed A recent study, the result of collaboration between the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome and the University of Oxford, has revealed an important correlation between the paternal age and the likelihood of passing on some rare genetic […] The post Paternal age and risk of genetic disease: a growing link appeared first on Emergency Live.
Dr. Mike Sevilla
AUGUST 22, 2024
On August 17, 2024, the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) presented the prestigious Torchlight Leadership Award to Mike Sevilla, MD, FAAFP, during its Family Medicine Celebration at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus, Ohio. Presented at the discretion of the OAFP Board of Directors, this award honors an Academy leader who best champions the mission and vision of the OAFP: to improve the health of patients by advocating for and advancing the specialty of Family Medicine
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