In the Literature

Journal Feed brings you updated guidelines on anticoagulation in VTE, aspirating olecranon bursitis, and a NEJM review on snake envenomation.

Clay Smith brings you HFNC for COVID-19, nebulized ketamine for analgesia, and long term outcomes for those with appendicitis treated with antibiotics alone.

Journal Feed Wrap-Up breaks into 2022 with updated difficult airway guidelines, deaths from cough and cold medications, and more cardiac testing is not always better.

Clay Smith covers the CAPITAL CHILL RCT and hypothermia after cardiac arrest, intradermal sterile water for back pain, and steroids for pediatric retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscesses.

Clay Smith brings you hyperbaric oxygen for CO toxicity, IM dosing of ketorolac, and history and exam findings in cauda equina syndrome.

Journal feed covers dalbavancin for soft tissue infections and REGEN-COV for COVID-19.

Journal Feed looks at non-operative management of appendicitis, immediate vs. delayed angiography for OHCA, and ECG diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia.

Journal Feed covers calf vein DVT and anticoagulation, finding the cricothyroid membrane, and using D-dimer in patients with COVID-19 for evaluation of PE.

Clay covers intubating COVID patients, EtCO2 and PEA in OHCA, and NSAIDs and the risk of non-union.

Journal Feed covers balanced fluids versus normal saline this week.