Despite decades of experience with endotracheal intubation, we continue to find approaches to improving the process of how we intubate.
Fast forward to today and we are finding all kinds of uses for TXA other than trauma including post-partum hemorrhage, epistaxis, hemoptysis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and many more.
CCTA has become a popular modality in the ED setting to assess anatomic atherosclerotic disease in patients presenting with chest pain. Advocates of CCTA feel that CCTA has a greater accuracy in identifying obstructive coronary artery disease and identification of high-risk disease compared to stan...
Have you ever heard an entire lecture on sinus tachycardia?
Abscess management has evolved somewhat in the 14 years since my residency graduation. The point at which antibiotics are likely to be more helpful than harmful is not always easy to assess, and evidence based expert opinion has flip flopped impressively.
Most outpatients are treated with azithromycin (or another macrolide antibiotic) as this drug gives a simple treatment regimen (single drug, simple dosing, short course). However, the efficacy of this regimen has been questioned in recent years as resistance patterns shift.
This clinical policy addresses five critical questions but does so over 51 pages. We’ve boiled down the major points here.
Learn the fundamentals of Wernicke Encephalopathy with this R.E.B.E.L. EM post!
