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#FOAMed Review 58th Edition

Michael Macias

Welcome to the 58th edition of the #FOAMed Review! 

The idea of the FOAMed review is to give you a digestible selection of reliable content from the online EM/CC world, including interesting and relevant evidence based medicine, that you can fit into your busy weekly schedule.


CORE CATEGORIES

Successful Tracheal Intubation In Children With Difficult Airways: Seven Secret Techniques

Anesthesiology News

10 Ways to Reduce a Shoulder Dislocation: Video How-To

Larry Mellick


EMERGENCY MEDICINE/CRITICAL CARE LITERATURE OF INTEREST

     
     
    • Identifying Patients Suitable for Discharge After a Single-Presentation High-Sensitivity Troponin Result: A Comparison of Five Established Risk Scores and Two High-Sensitivity Assay PMID26260100
    • More Than One Third of Intubations in Patients Transferred to Burn Centers are Unnecessary: Proposed Guidelines for Appropriate Intubation of the Burn Patient PMID26284640
    • The Early Repolarization Pattern: A Consensus Paper PMID26205599
    • Overdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism by Pulmonary CT Angiography PMID26204274
    • Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disturbances in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus PMID26244308

    MORE FOAMED 

    THE EVOLUTION OF PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE ED [PODCAST]: Listen to the full-length Grand Rounds recording of Sergey Motov, a pain expert, who discusses the evolving treatment of pain management in the ED hosted by Core EM

    SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND ST SEGMENT ELEVATION [BLOG]: A middle aged man with history of MI presented by EMS for the sudden onset of difficulty breathing. Read more, here at Dr. Smith's ECG Blog.

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    EARLY VENT WEANING TO HFNC IN HYPOXEMIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE [BLOG]: A proposal for extubation to HFNC in patients with hypoxic respiratory failure from Josh Farkas at Pulm Crit. While this may not yet be ready for primetime it has promising appeal. 

    RESUSCITATIONIST'S TOOLBOX:

    What you need for an ED Thoracotomy

    By Scott Weingart

    Mechanical Circulatory Support for the Emergency Physician

    By Felipe Teran



    SEE YOU NEXT WEEK 

     

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