The always excellent Emergency Medicine Literature of Note had a great post on stroke mimics and what happens when they get tPA. It was a study trying to say that only 1.4% of their tPA patients were stroke mimics but … Read More »
Carpenter, Christopher R, Jeremiah D Schuur, Worth W Everett, and Jesse M Pines. “Evidence-based diagnostics: adult septic arthritis..” Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 18, no. 8 (August 2011): 781–796. PMID 21843213 This is … Read More »
A Prospective Comparison of Procedural Sedation and Ultrasound-guided Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Reduction in the Emergency Department Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Sep;18(9):922-7 PMID 21883635 Not only do we have countless methods of reducing the shoulder, we now seem to be developing … Read More »
[I suspect every emergency medicine blog eventually gets caught in the overwhelming gravitational pull of the VTE literature till it collapses into itself and sucks the whole of the internet into a wormhole. Apparently CERN is actually colliding the URLs … Read More »
While I’m known for saying that most of the useful things I’ve learnt in my career I learnt on the web, it is also true that there’s the odd nugget on the telly too. Back in the early series when House was … Read More »