2019
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Dec 31 2019
Best Articles of 2019
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">These are the top articles from 2019. Enjoy!Read More -
Dec 30 2019
Best Prediction Tools for SBI in Febrile Infants
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The NICE Traffic Light System outperformed the Severity Index Score (SIS) among well appearing febrile infants ≤3 months old for predicting serious illness. Rochester Criteria (RC) had the highest sensitivity of all the tools in infants 0-28 days.Read More -
Dec 27 2019
Interventional Therapies for Acute PE – What We Know and What We Don’t
Cardiology, Critical Care, Hematology/Oncology, Imaging, Pain/Sedation/Procedure, Pharmacy/Pharmacology, Pulmonary/Allergy, Venous ThromboembolismSpoon Feed Emergency medicine docs should understand risk stratification of patients with acute PE as well as the risks, benefits, and gaps in evidence associated with interventional therapies.Read More -
Dec 26 2019
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid – Really!
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The rate of non-powder firearm (i.e. BB, airsoft, paintball) injuries has decreased overall in the past few decades, but eye injuries have increased - many of the them quite severe.Read More -
Dec 24 2019
An Emergency Medicine Christmas Song
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I would like to wish each of you a Merry Christmas! If you're like me, you are working over the Christmas holiday this year. I wrote a little song to help you get in the spirit…even when you’re in the ED! Take a listen.Read More -
Dec 23 2019
Persistent Opioid Use After Emergency Department Prescription
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">At 6-months post-ED follow-up, 66% of patients filled only the initial ED prescription they were given, and only 1% met criteria for persistent opioid use (>6 prescriptions at 6 months).Read More -
Dec 20 2019
Stroke Guidelines – 2019 Update From the AHA
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is an update to the Stroke Guidelines released in 2018. We will focus on what’s new since last year.Read More -
Dec 19 2019
PALS Update – Pediatric Advanced Life Support in 2019
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">These are the updated recommendations for airway management, ECPR, and targeted temperature management (TTM) in pediatric cardiac arrest in (IHCA) and out (OHCA) of hospitals.Read More -
Dec 18 2019
Epinephrine for OHCA – A Meta-analysis
Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, epinephrine improves ROSC and survival to hospital discharge, showing clear advantage over placebo/no drug.Read More -
Dec 17 2019
Management of Upper Airway Obstruction
Spoon Feed This is a helpful review of upper airway obstruction. This is core knowledge; the news is highlighted.Read More