June 2020

Spoon Feed The severe, yet clinically silent, hypoxemia of COVID-19 seen in some patients may be explained by a few basic respiratory pathophysiological principles.

Spoon Feed PE with syncope is associated with increased risk of short-term mortality, which is explained by the increase in hemodynamic instability seen in these patients as well.

Spoon Feed This is a summary of the major ACR/NKF consensus statements.

Spoon Feed Oral nitroglycerin didn’t seem to be particularly effective for esophageal food impaction in this small, non-blinded single arm study. Only 11.8%, or 2/17 patients, had relief of their symptoms after NTG administration.

Spoon Feed The aortic dissection detection risk score (ADD-RS) is sensitive at a score of ≥1. Adding a D-dimer to the score improves sensitivity even more but at the cost of a slightly lower specificity.

Spoon Feed This small pilot study suggests that vector change defibrillation and double sequential external defibrillation are safe and feasible for termination of refractory ventricular fibrillation and improves the rate of ROSC.

Spoon Feed In asymptomatic patients with INR>10, vitamin K administration was not associated with improved clinical outcomes.

Spoon Feed To improve safety for patients and the health of night shift workers, implement these personal and institutional countermeasures.

Spoon Feed In both an outpatient clinic and ICU population, patients deemed to have low risk penicillin allergies who underwent direct oral challenge of amoxicillin had no reported adverse effects.

Spoon Feed In patients aged 15 to 55 years with benign headaches, low dose IV haloperidol (2.5mg) improved pain in as little as 30 minutes without significant adverse events such as QT prolongation.