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Quantitative LV Function in PEA

Ultrasound Gel

Ultrasound in cardiac arrest is a favorite topic of the GEL Team and thus, we are back to crack open a radical new concept in the field. Does the left ventricular function actually matter in patients that are arresting?? Current practice for many is to assess for the binary presence or absence of cardiac activity, but these audacious authors suggest that a higher LV systolic function could be associated with a greater likelihood of return of spontaneous circulation!

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Hip Pain in Pediatrics

Northwestern EM Blog

Written by: Tommy Ng, MD (NUEM ‘24) Edited by: Patricia Bigach, MD (NUEM ‘22) Expert review by : Terese Whipple, MD '20 So your kid won’t walk One of the most common complaints in a pediatric Emergency Department is a child refusing or inability to ambulate. For normal development, a child is typically able to stand at 9 months, walk at 12 months, and run at 18 months.

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127. Parkour-ing into a C-spine injury

Board Bombs

Want to experience the greatest in board studying? Check out our interactive question bank podcast- the FIRST of its kind here: emrapidbombs.supercast.com This episode we are jumping into the Holiday Season and New Year with everything you need to know about C-spine injuries. We know this is a slightly longer episode than usual for us at EMBB, but we think this one is a New Year’s Special.

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A Sage Moment

Dr. No

It’s not often that Dr No’s flabber gets well and truly ghasted. An extraordinary exchange on twitter (scroll down a page or so to get to the start of the substance, and click here to see the above tweet) has revealed what many have long suspected: SAGE purposely cook the books in its modelling reports. Graham Medley , professor of infectious disease modelling at LSHTM, and chief pongo for the time being of SAGE’s modelling group SPI-M, defends the group’s practice of 

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ETCO2 Trauma | ORIF v Cast Radius | CAP-IT RCT | Ped CAP Severity Tool | COVID, Stress & You

JournalFeed

It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of December 13-17, 2021. We cover ETCO2 and trauma outcomes, ORIF vs cast for adult distal radius fractures, high or low/ 3 or 7 day treatment for pediatric community acquired pneumonia, a new pediatric CAP severity prediction tool, and how emergency physicians are coping with COVID stress.

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Imaging Case of the Week 486 Answer

EMergucate

The combined chest & abdominal x-ray in this paediatric patient shows a right middle lobe consolidation silhouetting the right heart … Continue reading →

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SGEM#352: Amendment – Addressing Gender Inequities in Academic Emergency Medicine

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: December 13th, 2021 Reference: Lee et al. Addressing gender inequities: Creation of a multi-institutional consortium of women physicians in academic emergency medicine. AEM December 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the creator of the #FOAMed project called First10EM.com Case: At the completion of her 1-month elective in your rural emergency department […] The post SGEM#352: Amendment – Addressing Gender Inequities in Academic Emergency Medicine first