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Hot off the press: Academic EM journal abstracts in Spanish 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
La revista Academic Emergency Medicine ha creado una nueva función en su página web en la cual todos los resúmenes de los articulos seran traducidos al espanol. Felicidades a AEM por ser la primera r...
Creating a personal learning environment 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
What is digital curation? It is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets (1). Once you have curated the digital content you might want to share with others...
Paucis Verbis: Electrolytes and ECG changes 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
Image from Life in the Fast Lane The electrocardiogram can pick up all sorts of electrolyte abnormalities. The most common abnormalities revolve around high and low levels of potassium and calcium. M...
Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/14 to 9/21 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
Because a good tweet is a terrible thing to waste! [View the story "Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/14 to 9/21" on Storify] [View the story "Image Tweets of the Week 9/14 to 9/21 " on Storify]
Trick of the Trade: Safer guidewire disposal 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
Have you ever accidentally flicked a drop of blood while disposing a straight guidewire into a rectangular sharps bin? The bins just don't quite fit the wire easily. That's just an occupational exposu...
Mythbuster: Pediatric coin ingestion vs aspiration? 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
Is this coin in the esophagus or the trachea? The classic teaching for the Boards exam is: Esophageal coins appear in the coronal plane, as shown above. Tracheal coins appear in the sagittal plane ...
Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/21 to 9/28 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
Because a good tweet is a terrible thing to waste! *Better seen full screen on a laptop or a desktop computer. [View the story "Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/21 to 9/28" on Storify] [View the story "I...
Trick of the Trade: Don't miss the pneumothorax in needle thoracostomy 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
A patient arrives in PEA arrest and you note that her left chest has no breath sounds or lung sliding on bedside ultrasound. You suspect a tension pneumothorax. You insert a standard 14g angiocather ...
Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/28 to 10/5 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
BECAUSE A GOOD TWEET IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE! [View the story "Tweet Pearls of the Week 9/28 to 10/5" on Storify] [View the story "Image Tweets of the Week 9/28 to 10/5" on Storify]
Trick of the Trade: IV ceftriaxone for gonorrhea 26 Oct 2012 | 10:59 am
How many times have you given your patient IM ceftriaxone for that presumed gonococcal infection? ... still counting? Many of us learned (or at least thought we learned) that ceftriaxone has to be ad...
