Best Articles of 2019
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style=”white-space:pre-wrap;”>These are the top articles from 2019. Enjoy!
December 2019
Best Prediction Tools for SBI in Febrile Infants
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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.
Interventional Therapies for Acute PE – What We Know and What We Don’t
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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.
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid – Really!
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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.
An Emergency Medicine Christmas Song
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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.
Persistent Opioid Use After Emergency Department Prescription
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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).
Stroke Guidelines – 2019 Update From the AHA
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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.
PALS Update – Pediatric Advanced Life Support in 2019
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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.
Epinephrine for OHCA – A Meta-analysis
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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.
Management of Upper Airway Obstruction
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This is a helpful review of upper airway obstruction. This is core knowledge; the news is highlighted.