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This handout accompanies the social media in medicine seminar as part of the University of Toronto Anesthesia and Surgery Faculty Development Day. It is primarily a collection of links to good resources explaining FOAM and how you can get involved in this fantastic online medical community.
Medical myths matter. All of our decisions, although they often seem small to us in the middle of a busy shift, have real impacts on people’s lives. To be a truly expert clinician, you have to understand not just what to do, but why you are doing it. The primary […]
Lecture notes to accompany 2016 NYGH EM Update talk on performance under pressure and mental practice: Surviving the first 10 minutes
We covered 3 myths today: The use of PPIs for upper GI bleeds The value of stress testing in low risk chest pain patients (covered in handout #1 and handout #2) The use of topical anesthetics for patients with corneal abrasions The lessons I have learned while struggling with […]
This is a summary of some of the key evidence based medicine resources that I use to help me keep up with the most current medical literature.
See this post for an approach to the massive GI bleed patient. Should we be starting PPIs on undifferentiated upper GI bleed patients in the emergency department prior to endoscopy?
A summary of the evidence supporting the use of topical anesthetics for pain control in simple corneal abrasion after emergency department discharge