December 2019

Spoon Feed We need to know hypertension and be expert in not only management of emergency but urgency as well. Here is a quick review for you.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Use of low osmolar IV contrast in critically ill patients did not appear to increase risk of acute kidney injury.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Presence or absence of fever at the time of presentation should not determine whether or not blood cultures are obtained in patients with community acquired pneumonia.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">These guidelines for nonvariceal upper GI bleeding are important for us to know from start to finish.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In this community ED, patients were given immediate buprenorphine and rapid outpatient follow up at a substance abuse treatment facility. This led to high rates of follow up and appeared feasible in this setting.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is a helpful summary of anticoagulant reversal agents. However, recommendations were largely based on expert opinion, with a significant number of conflicts of interest disclosed by the authors.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A propofol bolus for induction did not induce ECG changes compared to etomidate, nor did either agent induce arrhythmias upon induction.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A rapid assessment zone of ambulatory patients without initial traditional triage resulted in significant patient flow improvements.

Spoon Feed Point of care ultrasound was accurate for diagnosis of skin abscess, but the results of this review may have been inflated. It is likely most helpful in uncertain cases.

Spoon Feed style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Pediatric emergency medicine physician interpretation of pediatric musculoskeletal x-rays was discordant from radiology about 8% of the time and led to an increase in repeat ED visits for missed fractures and unnecessary orthopedic follow up for false positives.