This is a guest post by Dr. Ross Prager. It was actually the first blog post on a new FOAMed project – SimpleSage – and I asked to cross-post it here because I think that, based on the quality, readers of First10EM will almost certainly be interested in following this […]
Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the rigorous process of whatever I happened to find most interesting in my recent reading (with a couple suggestions from Dr. Casey Parker). The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: […]
If you haven’t yet discovered the Foohey’s Figures section of First10EM, now is the time. Foohey’s Figures is run by the brilliant educator Dr. Sarah Foohey, and is dedicated to graphics that distill emergency medicine topics down to their basics. They are amazing for quick reference on shift and are […]
First10EM is wrapping up its 9th year in existence. There have been 453 blog posts to date, and I am getting very close to having written 1 million words in total, or the equivalent of 10-20 average length nonfiction books. (Actually, the stats don’t include static pages like the catalog […]
Evidentiary amnesia is a term I use to describe the phenomenon I frequently encounter in which evidence seems to be forgotten over time. When I hear people lecture about the management of intracranial hemorrhage, and even when I invite incredibly smart people to write about neurologic emergencies, blood pressure management […]
When caring for pregnant women, I frequently find myself searching for information on radiation risks from diagnostic imaging, to help guide our shared decision making process, so I decided to create a summary in a spot I would always know where to find it. I have ranted in the past […]
After a recent talk entitled “Mastering Diagnosis”, Casey Parker and I sat down to discuss a few of the key points I was trying to make. Although this might be one of the nerdiest talks I have ever given, based entirely around math, I think it is one of the […]
One of the downsides of subscribing to more than 50 journal feeds is the huge number of interesting papers that I flag for later, but never find time to return to. I have started clearing out old PDFs for papers I never found time to fully appraise, but I figured […]
As usual, a random smattering of articles. This group was presented as part of a live podcast recording at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Australia, where I was honoured to be invited to be the WG Smith visiting lecturer. The guests helped select the papers, which means they are […]