December 2020

Spoon Feed EM residents who drove after night shifts were at risk for motor vehicle crashes. There was higher risk earlier in training, and all training levels underestimate how at risk they were.

Spoon Feed HINTS was misapplied 97% of the time by emergency physicians in patients with dizziness. Five patients that clinicians thought had central vertigo by HINTS all did not. Four of six patients who had proven central vertigo all had intermittent symptoms that sounded more like benign positional vertigo. I give up…

Spoon Feed This article reviews recent literature investigating the diagnosis and management of lower extremity DVT.

Spoon Feed When pediatric radiologists reinterpreted CT scans thought to be equivocal for appendicitis by community radiologists, they were able to provide a definitive diagnosis 88% of the time. Also, ultrasound for appendicitis at this children’s hospital was very accurate in equivocal cases.