Chest pain/protocols and algorithms. Not everyone needs an EST!
[I know the video isn’t immediately relevant but it’s still awesome…] From the blogs and podcasts, it seems that everyone in the US with a chest and some pain in it will get a rule out in the ED followed … Read More »
Shaken Baby Syndrome and SDH at birth
This was fascinating to me, though it may be old news to some of you. This paper1from WJEM is a narrative review of the available evidence used in forensic settings to link SDH and retinal bleeds with Non-Accidental Injury (NAI). … Read More »
On IST-3 and why we still don’t have the answer we were looking for…
OK so IST-3 is out. It’s a big and important trial so make sure and read it. Stroke lytics get a lot of attention from EM folks, if only because we seem the only ones not convinced of its efficacy. … Read More »
Anatomy for Emergency Medicine 016: The LMA as a murder weapon?
So this one is off the normal beaten track for me. The original Scancrit post can be found here The paper can be found here. Here’s the rest of my thoughts on it: This study was found by ScanCrit a while back now and … Read More »