Eolas Medical
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Hi, I’m Luke. I am the Chief Medical Officer at Eolas Medical. That might sound like a very fancy title but any of you who have worked in a tech startup before will know that titles often don’t mean much! Order of the day is often wearing many different hats and working on a range of different tasks within the business.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits from Smith and Grauer A 60 year old with no past medical history presented with two hours of chest pain radiating to the left arm, with normal vitals. What do you think? I sent this to Dr. Meyers without any other information, and he responded, “do you have a prior to make sure that it is all just because of the delta wave?
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Emergency Medicine Cases
OCTOBER 11, 2022
In this month's ECG Cases blog Dr. McLaren explains the PACER mnemonic approach to patients with pacemakers: Pacemaker spike: is it appropriately presence/absent, is there pacemaker-mediated tachycardia (apply magnet) or is there failure to pace (apply magnet to stop sensing, cardio consult)? Aware (sensing): is it normal, is there oversensing (underpacing: apply magnet) or undersensing (treat reversible causes, cardio consult).
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
OCTOBER 8, 2022
Date: September 15, 2022 Reference: Ramnarayan P et al. Effect of high-flow nasal cannula therapy vs continuous positive airway pressure therapy on liberation from respiratory support in acutely ill children admitted to pediatric critical care units: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA July 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Spyridon Karageorgos is a Pediatric Resident at Aghia Sophia […] The post SGEM #379 Heigh Ho High Flow versus CPAP in Acutely Ill Children first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emerge
EMergucate
OCTOBER 11, 2022
A 17 year old female presents to ED complaining of chest pain and SOB on a background of ILI symptoms for the last 2 days. Vitals: HR 138 BP 110/70 Temp 37.7 RR 24.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Written by Pendell Meyers and Peter Brooks MD A man in his 30s with no known past medical history was reported to suddenly experience chest pain and shortness of breath at home in front of his family. He reportedly told his family "I think I'm having a heart attack", then they immediately drove him to the ED, and he was able to ambulate into the triage area before he collapsed and became unresponsive.
Emergency Medicine Cases
OCTOBER 11, 2022
On this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Best of University of Toronto EM with Yaron Finkelstein on pediatric cannabis poisoning pitfalls, Brit Long on recognition and management of esophageal perforation, Jesse McLaren on 3 questions to diagnose Brugada Syndrome, Tahara Bhate on QI Corner, Constance Leblanc on maintaining wellness in career transitions from CAEP 2022.
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EMergucate
OCTOBER 9, 2022
The pelvic x-ray shows right inferior pubic ramus fracture as well as right acetabular fracture.
Thinking Critical Care
OCTOBER 14, 2022
It’s always a good time hanging with these guys (@khaycock2 and @Emnerd). Over the years I’ve learned a ton from them. Even if I thought I was pretty solid on something, they almost always have the ability to shed some additional light on it in a particularly useful way. So I always look forward to these discussions. Today we took some time to flesh out some of the questions and statements that came up about VExUS in the last few days on medtwitter.
JournalFeed
OCTOBER 8, 2022
The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 3-7, 2022. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. More Paralysis Spoon Feed In this single center cohort of 886 patients, 5 patients had definite awareness during paralysis. However, there were 61 patients determined to have possible awareness, meaning upwards of 7.4% of patients could have been aware.
EMergucate
OCTOBER 9, 2022
The chest x-ray shows features of left main bronchus foreign body.
EMergucate
OCTOBER 11, 2022
A middle aged man with history of hypertension and GORD, presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain.
EMergucate
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Answers: Question 1: PH = 7.22, that is moderate acidaemia. HCO3 = 17 mmol/L, then we have metabolic acidosis.
EMergucate
OCTOBER 9, 2022
The request form for the left forearm x-ray is as follows: fall on outstretched left hand.? fracture.
EMergucate
OCTOBER 11, 2022
A 58 year old male presents to ED complaining of a headache and weakness to his left side.
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