First 10 EM

APRIL 15, 2024

One of the biggest headaches in modern medicine is the apparent requirement to call busy specialists just to confirm what seems like an obvious treatment plan. In emergency medicine, this often happens when a patient needs to be admitted under one service, but with a medical problem related to another speciality. We get stuck in […] The post The Brain Injury Guidelines: Can we avoid talking to neurosurgeons?

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EMS 121

EMCrit Project

APRIL 15, 2024

A razor is a rule of thumb that is helpful, although it isn't always correct. In medicine we're familiar with Occam's razor (the rule of parsimony). The cutoff razor states: if a continuous variable is dichotomized using a cutoff, then values near the cutoff provide little information. A simple illustration of the cutoff razor is […] EMCrit Project by Josh Farkas.

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ESO

APRIL 15, 2024

Providing an in-depth analysis of the current trends and benchmarks in trauma care, the 2023 ESO Trauma Index pulls data from the nation’s largest de-identified medical database to establish best practices that help to improve patient care in these select areas. The 2023 Trauma Index reflects insights from over 968,538 hospital records from 596 hospital systems that took place between January 1st and December 31st of 2022.

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NAEMSP

APRIL 15, 2024

Article Summary by Sarah Fabiano, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Kupas DF, Wydro GC, Tan DK, Kamin R, Harrell AJ 4th, Wang A. Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical services practitioners. Prehosp Emerg Care 2021 Sep-Oct;25(5):721-3. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2021.1917736. Epub 2021 Jun 7. PMID: 33877949. Background NAEMSP has had a position statement on patient restraint in 2002 and updated in 2017.

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Paramedics World

APRIL 15, 2024

Liver disease, which encompasses various disorders that compromise its ability to function normally, remains an existential health threat worldwide. Medical science has made tremendous advances, yet liver illnesses such as… The post The Current Therapies and New Developments in Liver Disease Treatment appeared first on Paramedics World.

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Paramedic 52