The First10EM monthly (or I guess seasonal this time) wrap up is a place for me to share updates about the website, about my academic life, and also interesting content, such as books, podcasts, and other FOAMed, that I have encountered in the prior month. Obviously the format means the […]
The concept of a “deepity” was, I believe, coined by Daniel Dennet in his great book “Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking”. He says, “a deepity is a proposition that seems both important and true – and profound – but achieves this effect by being ambiguous. On one reading […]
Gestalt for sepsis? This paper hits two of my biggest pet peeves in medicine. 1) The endless emphasis on rushing to hit treatment targets in sepsis or otherwise and 2) the assumption that decision instruments must be better than basic clinical judgment. I am aware, therefore, that my interpretation is […]
Some big and potentially practice changing articles this month. (I tend to read ridiculous articles in my free time, which I have had very little of, and so there are no intubation in outer space or highly philosophical papers about the language this month. Don’t worry, there is still a […]
The First10EM monthly wrap up is a place for me to share updates about the website, about my academic life, and also interesting content, such as books, podcasts, and other FOAMed, that I have encountered in the prior month. Obviously the format means the focus is mostly on content I […]
A can’t intubate can’t oxygenate scenario will always be scary, but after years of mental rehearsal and some real world experience, the idea of surgical front of neck access in an adult doesn’t bother me much. (I think that is an important mental space for emergency physicians to find if […]
Maximizing your productivity and impact is hard. The A.D.D. framework: Automate, Deprecate, and Delegate, identifies strategies that can be implemented to scale your impact in research and beyond. This is a guest post by Dr. Ross Prager, which was also posted on his blog at resub.app, but that I should […]
Preparation for intubation, appropriate preoxygenation, and preventing peri-intubation arrests has been one of my core topics for conference talks. My initial airway series emphasized “optimizing the basics” and carefully considering “is this patient ready for intubation?”. My “RSI and then they die” lecture is by far my most watched video […]
As we have covered multiple times before, the evidence for paxlovid is heavily conflicted and mostly negative. There is very little reason to be using this agent clinically. However, despite an utter lack of evidence, many people have held out hope that paxlovid might be the miracle cure for the […]