Unfortunately, although the popularity of smoking has been on the decline for decades, vaping is becoming extremely popular, especially among young patients. More than 20% of high-school students and about 5% of middle school students admit to using an e-cigarette in the past 30 days. (Cullen 2018) When compared to smoking […]
Rapid Review
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The Rapid Review series reviews the key points of a clinical review paper. The current topic: Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) The Paper: Timmons et al. (2019). Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: A review for emergency clinicians. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2019. PMID: 31097257 [paper]
At one point in history, measles was a common childhood illness, like the chicken pox of my youth. Thankfully the incidence has significantly decreased with vaccination, but the illness is now resurfacing in the face of vaccine hesitancy. Would you be able to identify and manage measles if it walked […]
The Rapid Review series is designed to briefly review the key emergency medicine points from a single clinical review paper. This post’s topic: Acute Intermittent Porphyria
In the Rapid Review series, I briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper. The topic this time: Ciguatera poisoning The paper: Thompson CA, Jazuli F, Taggart LR, Boggild AK. Ciguatera fish poisoning after Caribbean travel. CMAJ Canadian Medical Association journal. 2016. PMID: 27160878
In the Rapid Review series I briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper. The topic: anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
This is a new type of post for First10EM. I frequently come across excellent papers that contain just a little too much information for the Articles of the Month reviews, but don’t really fit with the first 10 minutes resuscitation theme of the website. Up until now, I have simply […]