Comparing Maintenance Fluid Types
A comparison of isotonic to hypotonic intravenous fluid at maintenance rates for 48 hours in...
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Emergency Medicine
Comparing Maintenance Fluid Types
A comparison of isotonic to hypotonic intravenous fluid at maintenance rates for 48 hours in...
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Predicting Successful Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
Several key features appear to influence out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival to hospital...
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Repeat ED Visits for Pediatric Meningitis & Septicemia
A study has found that repeat ED visits prior to admission appear to be common among children with...
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Aspirin Lowers Mortality in Pneumonia Patients
Chronic aspirin use appears to lower 30-day mortality among patients hospitalized with pneumonia,...
Read MoreOutcomes for Frequent ED Users
Frequent ED users appear to have higher mortality rates and are at greater risk for being admitted to the hospital when compared with non-frequent users, according to findings of a meta-analysis. Frequent ED users had a 2.2-fold...
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Predicting Discharge to Post-Acute Care
A study has found that conducting individualized risk assessments of discharge to post-acute care...
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Gender & AMI Recovery
Women appear to have worse health than men after experiencing an acute myocardial infarction...
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ICDs After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Investigators from the American Heart Association suggest that implantable...
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It Ain’t What You Don’t Know…
A while back, I was on call on a Saturday night when we got a notification of an incoming trauma,...
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Defining Rx Opioid Overdose Risk
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear...
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Analyzing IDUs in the ED
When compared with patients who are not injection drug users (IDUs), those who are IDUs and are...
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Diagnosing Lung Consolidations With Ultrasound
Lung ultrasounds appear to be a reliable alternative to chest x-rays for the bedside diagnosis of...
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STI History Among Adolescents
A study has found that about one in 10 sexually active adolescents presenting to the ED appear to...
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Team Approach Benefits ED Residents
Emergency medicine (EM) faculty physicians are often challenged to develop clinical experiences...
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Defining Rx Opioid Overdose Risk
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear...
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Medscape’s 2015 Physician Compensation Report
Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey....
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Is the Surgeon Still “Captain of the Ship”?
A Kentucky appeals court recently ruled that a surgeon was not responsible for a burn caused by an...
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High Expectations & Physician Suicide
A friend on Facebook recently forwarded a news article and a link to a physician blog about the...
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