33 Charts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since the pandemic healthcare has undergone a remarkable transformation. Before COVID dropped in as our latest wicked problem, technology was upending everything we do. I’ve been thinking a lot about the burnout, confusion, uncertainty, and exhaustion that we’re facing. I’ve been thinking about the conditions that define healthcare. When we talk about these challenges that we’re facing there’s a tendency to blame isolated issues — we believe that our problems can be solved with targe

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A 50 year old male presents to ED after being found in a park.

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EKG/ECG 52

Emergency Medicine Cases

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In this ECG Cases blog we look at 10 patients with potentially ischemic symptoms. Which had a coronary occlusion, and how acute were they? Jesse McLaren explains 'Late STEMI' and how reperfusion strategies should not be based on time of symptom onset. The post ECG Cases 25: ‘Late STEMI’ – How acute is the coronary occlusion? appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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JournalFeed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of September 13-17, 2021. We cover balanced fluids in the PICU, crystalloids for TBI patients, DKA fluid-dropping sodium-AMS, BaSICS part1, and BsSICS part 2.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Date: September 16th, 2021 Reference: Sippola et al. Effect of Oral Moxifloxacin vs Intravenous Ertapenem Plus Oral Levofloxacin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis. The APPAC II Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rob Leeper is an assistant professor of surgery at Western University and the London Health Sciences Center.

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Thank you for those that participated in today’s Simulation.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In this EM Quick Hits: Walter Himmel on new diseases associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, Leeor Sommer on the evolution of epiglottitis - adult epiglottitis clinical pearls, Sarah Reid on how to pick up HSP, Anand Swaminathan on an approach to management of heat stroke, Justin Morgenstern on the association between pediatric Bell's palsy and leukemia.

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PulmCCM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [ @heart_lung ] The left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] is a commonly-sought cardiac measure. With the explosion of bedside ultrasound and automated methods to capture LVEF, the ejection fraction will grow in clinical prominence and affect decisions for the acutely-ill. Asked the meaning of the LVEF, many clinicians might describe it as a ‘measure of cardiac function’ – but this is a nebulous answer.

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Important studies/ research papers relevant to Emergency Medicine

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The left shoulder x-rays are from a 30 year old who has sustained injury to their shoulder post fall.

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EMS 52

EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Compass trial Design– double-blind trial involving placebo medication vs study medication, March 2013 to May 2016. Rivaroxaban (2.

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

47 year old woman with known type I diabetes mellitus presented with diarrhoea.

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EMergucate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

A 50 year old male presents to ED after being found in a park.

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