A new mobile app, the Weighing Cam, that visually scans children with the phone camera was more accurate than the Broselow tape in estimating the weight of pediatric patients.

Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM or #FOAMed) allows information to rapidly and widely disseminate. It’s paramount to make sure errors are minimized and addressed when they occur. Here’s how.

The new tool, Compass MI, allows you to choose high-sensitivity troponin i or t (hsTni or hsTnt), initial cutoff, and early/late delta troponin, and calculates the diagnostic performance you can expect.

Virtual reality reduced pain and anxiety in children undergoing procedures compared with usual care.

Use of virtual reality (VR) in children who need venipuncture or an IV reduced pain. Kids, caregivers, and proceduralists said they would use or recommend VR again.

Shock Index (SI) >1.3 was predictive of both hospital admission and inpatient mortality. This could act as an early warning to flag patients likely to need increased resources in the ED and a bed in the hospital.

This is amazing! UTICalc is an online tool that can both reduce unnecessary testing and missed UTIs.

Drones carrying a rescue buoy were able to find and rescue simulated (and three real) drowning victims in half the time of a traditional lifeguard or one on a Jet Ski.

We are already undergoing a Cognitive Revolution.  As I thought more about this, I started to wonder how much AI will change our practice in the near future and ran across this excellent article in the New Yorker, A.I. vs M.D., that got me thinking.