September 2020
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Sep 16 2020
VTE Week | COVID-19 and PE Risk in Hospitalized Patients
Spoon Feed Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism. The risk is largest in those patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit.Read More -
Sep 15 2020
VTE Week | Outpatient PE Treatment in the DOAC Era
Spoon Feed In this systematic review, outpatient treatment of patients with pulmonary embolism deemed low risk by a clinical decision tool demonstrated a low incidence of mortality, recurrent venous thromboembolism, or major bleeding at 90 days. There was no association between direct oral anticoagulant use and rates of adverse outcomes.Read More -
Sep 14 2020
VTE Week | Why Clinicians Don’t Follow PE Decision Tools
Spoon Feed Use of evidence-based decision tools when evaluating a patient for acute pulmonary embolism are fraught with barriers at both the provider and organizational level. This study used implementation science methods to explore some of the barriers and facilitators to the uptake of these tools in clinical practice.Read More -
Sep 11 2020
Will I Catch COVID-19 If Exposed?
Spoon Feed If a susceptible person is exposed to someone with COVID-19, there is, on average, about a 3-4% chance of they will become infected. Several factors make this more or less likely.Read More -
Sep 10 2020
PNES – Increased Mortality from Pseudoseizure?
Spoon Feed Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) had 2.5 times greater mortality than the general population, many of them by suicide.Read More -
Sep 09 2020
New Leukemia Presenting as Facial Palsy In Children
Spoon Feed Facial nerve palsy in children may very rarely be caused by leukemia. If starting steroids, consider a CBC first.Read More -
Sep 08 2020
HEART Pathway – Is It Safe a Year Later?
Spoon Feed The HEART pathway reduced admission for chest pain and was associated with low adverse events one year after implementation.Read More -
Sep 07 2020
NSAIDs for Low Back Pain – Brass Tacks Concise Review
Spoon Feed NSAIDs are an effective treatment for low back pain, though the absolute reduction in pain and disability is small.Read More -
Sep 04 2020
How to Tape an ETT That Won’t Come Out
Spoon Feed When comparing taping methods to secure an ETT, a generous amount of non-torn tape secured bilaterally and as laterally as possible on the face required the most force to extubate.Read More -
Sep 03 2020
Early Norepinephrine for Septic Shock
Spoon Feed Early initiation of norepinephrine for patients with septic shock was associated with decreased short-term mortality, reduced time to achieve target MAP, and lower volume of IV fluid administered within 6 hours.Read More