October 2017
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Oct 31 2017
DOAC vs Warfarin Related Non-Traumatic ICH
Compared with vitamin K antagonist (VKA)-related non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC)-related ICH had less disability, smaller bleeds, and the meta-analysis showed lower in-hospital mortality rates.
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Oct 30 2017
Do Pediatric CAP Patients Need a Blood Culture?
In children without other comorbidities, with moderate to severe community acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization, the yield of blood culture was very low. Most isolated organisms were Streptococcus pneumoniae, 82% of which were penicillin sensitive.
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Oct 28 2017
SCIWORA in the NEXUS Study
Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality (SCIWORA) was very rare, 27/34069 (0.08%). Although NEXUS enrolled 3000 patients <18 years, down to age 1, all patients with SCIWORA were adults in this cohort.
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Oct 27 2017
Should We Give Delayed Lytics for Stroke Over Age 80?
Elderly stroke patients over age 80 who received tPA >3 - 4.5 hours from time of onset were more likely to have symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (SICH), 10% vs 8% in the <3-hour group, but overall mortality and percentage with good neurological outcome was the same in the delayed group as patients who received it in under 3 hours.
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Oct 26 2017
Mounting Evidence for Dexamethasone in Pharyngitis
In patients age 5 years through adulthood with sore throat of any cause, use of a single, low-dose steroid (most often dexamethasone 10mg or 0.6mg/kg for children, max 10mg; most given orally) were twice as likely to have pain relief at 24 hours.
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Oct 25 2017
News Flash – Asymptomatic Trauma Patients With Negative Scans Do Well
Asymptomatic blunt trauma patients over age 14 with a negative CT abdomen/pelvis did not have delayed missed injuries.
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Oct 24 2017
Pediatric Pneumonia Exam Unreliable – CARPE DIEM Study
Substantial agreement on clinical exam findings in children with suspicion of pneumonia was only present for wheezing and retractions. All other clinical exam findings had poor to moderate agreement between clinician examiners.
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Oct 23 2017
Significance of Gasping During Arrest
Gasping during cardiac arrest was associated with improved neurologically intact survival. The practical take-home is to avoid premature cessation of CPR if any signs of gasping or agonal respirations are present and to avoid suppression of spontaneous gasping during CPR.
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Oct 21 2017
Why We Use NEXUS for C-Spine Clearance
The NEXUS criteria can be used to determine which patients do not need c-spine x-rays. Since this was published, we have shifted to predominantly CT imaging, which is more sensitive. Also, we have learned that NEXUS is not as sensitive in elderly patients.
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Oct 20 2017
Should We Ditch Preintubation Checklists?
Calling out a verbal, pre-intubation checklist to make sure equipment was present and the intubation plan (and backup plan) was in place did not result in improved lowest oxygen saturation. Read on to see why we shouldn't ditch the checklist just yet.