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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]