September 2018

The higher cost, lower yield tests to consider avoiding for patients ≥60 with syncope were: EEG, head CT, MRA, cardiac stress test, and EP study.

Scribes increased physician productivity in this single center low-acuity pediatric ED before and after study.

Incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) on CT following minor head trauma in anticoagulated patients was 9%, which means we have to CT all these people.

For patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), intensive lowering of systolic blood pressure (SBP) with goal SBP < 140 mmHg was associated with increased cerebral ischemia and neurologic deterioration compared to goal SBP < 160 mmHg.

Once thought only a skill possessed by the Labrador retriever, retrieval practice is something you can do too!  No jumping into an icy cold pond for a dead duck.  No, this retrieval practice is much easier.  Testing forces your brain to retrace its steps and work to retrieve the memory you made when you first learned the information.  And it locks it in long-term memory much better than just re-reading the material again. Aren’t you glad JournalFeed added this feature?