August 2025 – Emergency Medicine Education

Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia

August 27, 2025August 27, 2025Pourmand

The American Thoracic Society has recently published a Clinical Practice Guideline addressing key aspects of the diagnosis and management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The guideline offers evidence-based recommendations on several clinically important questions, including the role of concurrent testing and treatment for viral infections in high-risk populations and the optimal duration of antibiotic therapy. Link […]

Position of Head in Stroke

August 13, 2025Pourmand

A recent research question on the relationship between head-of-bed positioning and clinical deterioration in patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke was addressed in the June edition of JAMA. Only a small number of studies have examined this topic in recent years. The current study demonstrated that a 0° head position was superior to a […]