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The time has come to learn from the pandemic; to learn from our mistakes (and hopefully a few successes). There are many topics to choose from. In future posts, I plan to be very positive about the tremendous work done by so many colleagues. I will probably also have to […]

Lessons from the pandemic: Lagging indicators

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AI and diagnostic reasoning

This is an invited guest post by Dr. Cory Rohlfsen (@CoryRohlfsen) based on an interesting twitter thread of his from a few month back. Dr. Rohlfsen is a hybrid internal medicine clinician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He splits his time between hospitalist duties and primary care clinic. […]

Diagnostic reasoning as artificial intelligence emerges: a distributed cognition framework

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The First10EM monthly wrap-up

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 […]

The First10EM monthly wrap-up for February 2024

Research Roundup First10EM best of emergency medicine research

Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the very rigorous process of whatever I happened to find interesting in my recent reading. The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: https://broomedocs.com/category/podcast/

The Research Roundup (February 2024)

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The NINJA trial First10EM

Nail bed injuries aren’t quite common enough to cause the same debates as TXA, or IV antibiotics, or tPa, but talk to 10 different emergency doctors and you are likely to get 10 different opinions about the management of these injuries. Therefore, even though the NINJA study doesn’t answer the […]

The NINJA trial: Do you replace the fingernail after nail …

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Routine MRI in first episode psychosis FIRST10EM

Usually, I reserve stand alone blog posts for high quality papers. Usually, garbage science is either ignored, or reserved for brief mentions in the Research Roundups. However, the conclusion of this paper, which states “it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify not making MRI a mandatory part of the clinical […]

No, you don’t need to order an MRI in first …

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topical anesethics for simple cornal abrasionsabrasion

Long time readers will know that I generally dislike guidelines. Although there are exceptions, I think that guidelines are often more problematic than helpful. However, I know that many people work in places that have medicolegal structures that leave them feeling completely paralyzed, and unable to practice in the absence […]

ACEP says its OK to use topical anesthetics for simple …

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Propofol Related Infusion Syndrome

In the Rapid Review series, I briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper (which often extends to multiple papers because I can’t help myself). The topic this time: Propofol Related Infusion Syndrome (PRIS). Like many rapid review topics, this was chosen for my own education because I […]

Propofol Related Infusion Syndrome (PRIS)

The First10EM monthly wrap-up

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 focus is on content I have found, but I […]

The First10EM monthly wrap-up for January 2024

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