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8 blog posts met our standard of online excellence and were approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. Digital Impact Factor: A Quality Index for Educational Blogs and Podcasts in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. More specifically, we identified 3 AIR and 5 Honorable Mentions. Ann Emerg Med. 2023;82(1):55-65.
8 blog posts met our standard of online excellence and were approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. Digital Impact Factor: A Quality Index for Educational Blogs and Podcasts in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. More specifically, we identified 3 AIR and 5 Honorable Mentions. Please go to the above link.
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appeared first on EMOttawa Blog. Historically, it has been used more frequently in the ICU than in Emergency Departments, likely due to provider comfort. […] The post Is there a Precedence for Precedex in the ED?
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Back on June 1 st , 2023, Swami wrote a blog post on REBEL EM titled, The CT FIRST Trial, Should We Pan-CT After ROSC? REBEL EM Blog, June 1, 2023. Back on June 1st, 2023, Swami wrote a blog post on REBEL EM titled, The CT FIRST Trial, Should We Pan-CT After ROSC? Below you will find some of the points we discussed.
Josh Kimbrell, NRP @joshkimbre Judah Kreinbrook, EMT-P @JMedic2JDoc This is the first installment of a blog series showing how transcutaneous pacing (TCP) can be difficult, and how you can improve your skills. TCP In Transit: A case reviewing transcutaneous pacing, false electrical capture, and re-arrest.
In Figure-1 is the ECG from the August 26, 2009 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ( this being one of the 10 Cases of Inferior HATWs that Dr. Smith links to — and the ECG for which he gives a preview of the HATW model that he and Dr. Meyers are working on ). Figure-1: ECG from the August 26, 2009 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog.
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Tips for the personal statement Mentioned Resources CORD website: New MyERAS® Application: Guidance for Emergency Medicine Read and Listen to the Other EM Match Advice Episodes Blog posts: [link] Author information Sara M.
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An undergraduate (not yet in medical school) who works as an ED technician (records all EKGs, helps with procedures, takes vital signs) and who reads this blog regularly arrived at work and happened to glance down and see this previously recorded ECG on a table in the ED. It was recorded at 0530: What do you think?
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