The Trauma Pro

JULY 23, 2024

Although very few things in medicine are new, I love it when I learn about something I’ve never heard of before. Recently, while reading an autopsy report, I ran across the term “hinge fracture of the skull.” What? Maybe if I were a neurosurgeon, I would have recognized the term. This was the perfect excuse to hit the books (or, more accurately, the internet).

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Fractures 264

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 23, 2024

I was working at triage when the medics brought this patient who is 65 yo and has had chest pain for 12 hours. They recorded a prehospital ECG at 2112 and said that it was “normal”. It had already been crumpled up and put in the waste basket. So I uncrumpled it: What do you think? You need to click on it to enlarge it to view it well I was suspicious for inferior and posterior OMI (Large T-wave in aVF, slight STE in lead III with inverted T-wave in aVL, and a slightly downsloping ST with negativ

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NRC Health

JULY 23, 2024

Patients, families, and even healthcare team members often walk into medical settings filled with fear—and when they’re scared, they can’t fully grasp the critical information providers are trying to convey. Mindy G. Spigel, RN, MSN, CPXP, will delve into her research on patient and family fear, offering key strategies to alleviate this anxiety at Human Understanding Beyond | HUB 24 in San Diego, August 21–23.

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Research 102

St. Emlyn

JULY 23, 2024

St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Welcome back to another instalment of our Critical Appraisal Nugget series with Rick Body and Greg Yates here at St Emlyn’s. In our previous podcast, we delved into the concepts […] The post Podcast – Positive and Negative Predictive Values: Critical Appraisal Nugget appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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Canadian EM

JULY 23, 2024

Your meeting with hospital stakeholders on designing a dashboard to better care for COVID-19 patients who are experiencing homelessness was a resounding success. Everyone was engaged and helped craft a problem statement, KPIs, and OKRs that you then presented to your hospital IT team. Luckily, IT has the bandwidth available to support developing this dashboard—but they need your help through the process.

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EMergucate

JULY 23, 2024

The following chest x-ray is from a child with cough & fever. What can be seen?

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EMS 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 23, 2024

Last week brought news of the death of Peter Buxtun , the whistleblower who exposed the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Though the study is now universally recognized as one of the great scandals in the history of American medicine, for years Buxton’s colleagues in the Public Health Service ignored his complaints and dismissed his insistence that it violated basic ethical standards to deceive and withhold effective treatment from the Black sharecroppers who were the study’s subject

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Pediatrics Academics Administration Wellness 144