2016

Get Spoon-Fed a year's worth of articles!  The best articles of 2016 are listed by topic: Airway, Critical Care, Cardiology, Trauma, Peds, Resuscitation, Tox, etc.

Bystander CPR improved the odds of neurologically intact survival in pediatric patients, but only if conventional CPR was performed.

Conventional CPR is preferred over compression-only CPR in pediatric arrest and any CPR is better than none. 

Getting adequate time to sleep is key to being healthy when you work nights.  Insufficient sleep kills.

This is an excellent summary of acute gout therapy.

Unlike the authors' conclusion that the basics of cricothyrotomy should be taught in CPR classes, I think the focus should be on proven treatments for choking and on providing high quality out-of-hospital CPR.

Enjoy this new take on an old poem: Twas the Night Before Christmas - In the ED.

Ankle PT after a mild sprain may not be helpful in making an excellent recovery.

Midshaft clavicle fractures were once treated non-operatively but are increasingly repaired surgically with improved outcomes over non-op treatment.

Hyperpronation is more effective than supination/flexion for nursemaid's elbow.