January 2021

Spoon Feed In patients with 5th metatarsal base avulsion fractures, pain at 6 months after treatment with a hard-soled shoe and weight bearing as tolerated was non-inferior to a short-leg cast. Patients treated with hard-soled shoe also had reduced time to return to pre-injury activity.

Spoon Feed Refractory out-of-hospital VF arrest has been considered almost uniformly fatal. ECMO rescue (ECPR) could change that, improving not just survival but good neurologic outcomes!

Spoon Feed The prevalence of invasive bacterial infection (IBI) was very low among afebrile infants ≤90 days with acute otitis media (AOM). Use caution if you plan to treat with antibiotics and not do a septic workup, especially in 0-28 day olds.

Spoon Feed For pediatric UTI, different urinalysis and urine microscopy cutoffs more or less strongly predicted infection. Use of interval likelihood ratios improves accuracy.

Spoon Feed The estimated prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among US ED healthcare personnel was 4.6%, with over 38% of those infections being undiagnosed.

Spoon Feed When making hypothetical residency rank lists, applicants changed their preferences based on information that should not change true residency preferences, such as learning how competitive a program rates them.

Spoon Feed TXA given in the prehospital setting for isolated traumatic brain injury was associated with increased 30-day mortality.

Spoon Feed In this study, infants undergoing intubation with standard geometry video laryngoscopy had a higher first pass success rate and fewer severe complications when compared to infants intubated with direct laryngoscopy.

Spoon Feed In this US-based cohort study, the emergency department discharge rate of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) was <5%. The rate of outpatient PE management varied widely between institutions.

Spoon Feed Multimodal CT-based imaging led to faster treatment time than MRI for stroke patients with >4.5 hours or unknown time of onset.