Back again with another month’s worth of interesting, inane, or sometimes important emergency medicine literature. As always, podcast version on BroomeDocs or YouTube.
Toxicology
Normal saline: The world’s worst murder weapon? Finfer S, Micallef S, Hammond N, Navarra L, Bellomo R, Billot L, Delaney A, Gallagher M, Gattas D, Li Q, Mackle D, Mysore J, Saxena M, Taylor C, Young P, Myburgh J; PLUS Study Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care […]
A 45 year old brought in by EMS after being found unconscious and cyanotic. She has Celiac disease, and was started on dapsone for dermatitis herpetiformis yesterday. She doesn’t have any other health problems, and aside from the rash, has been healthy recently. She is afebrile and her blood glucose […]
After two editions focused on COVID, it’s time to get back to some standard emergency medicine topics. (Yes, there are many more COVID papers to cover, but I am sort of sick of reading them.) This time we cover dog therapy in the ED, imaging for renal colic, hypothermia, vitamin […]
In the Rapid Review series, I briefly review the key points of a clinical review paper. (Well, this time it is a combination of 3 papers. The topic: Shiitake dermatitis
A monthly summary and brief critical appraisal of the best emergency medicine literature I have encountered