July 2021

Spoon Feed When the midline epiglottic fold was engaged during laryngoscopy, intubators were more likely to obtain a Cormack-Lehane grade 1 or 2a view.

Spoon Feed The presentation of myocarditis in children is heterogenous, and arriving at the definitive diagnosis is complicated. If you suspect it, respect it – these kids are at high risk for arrhythmia and decompensation.

Spoon Feed This is a review of the diagnosis and management of myocarditis, which is inflammation of the myocardium leading to cardiac dysfunction.

Spoon Feed Lighter sedation of intubated patients, use of validated screening tools, and use of non-pharmacologic interventions decrease the risk of delirium in our patients.

Spoon Feed Managing pediatric DKA requires fluid, insulin, intense monitoring, and being ever watchful for cerebral edema. This covers best practices.

Spoon Feed With fair to moderate interrater reliability and uncertain accuracy of the HEART score, we may want to consider alternative ways to risk stratify chest pain patients.

Spoon Feed This retrospective application of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score (CSRS) on a different syncope cohort, for which some of the key variables of the CSRS had to be estimated or extrapolated, showed it performed similarly to clinical judgment. But this wasn’t the best design to address external validation of the CSRS in a demographically different cohort.

Spoon Feed Chest ultrasound performed by trained emergency physicians appears to be more sensitive than supine chest x-ray in identifying pneumothorax in emergency department trauma patients.

Spoon Feed In a population of older adults, serious central and peripheral nervous system adverse events were associated with increased odds of metronidazole exposure relative to clindamycin.

Spoon Feed Treatment with antithrombotic therapy was associated with decreased risk of death and stroke in patients with blunt cerebrovascular injury regardless of vascular injury grade.