Emergency Medicine Education

This is my post in 2012, Annals of Emergency Medicine published a study this month regarding same topics.

I highly recommend you to take a look at this article published in American Heart Journal last week(Feb, 2015). The authors identified 11 class 1A(means the best evidence) in  STEMI or UA/NSTEMI and they followed them form clinical trial publication til meaningful application into clinical practice.  It took 16 years for clinician to apply those evidence into practice.

Another study from AJR in Jan 2015 focused on dizziness/syncope. Due to difficulty to define definition of dizziness among patients, they used 3 terms of Dizziness, Syncope, and

In adult patients with suspected acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection, is a negative serum D-dimer sufficient to identify a group of patients at very low risk for the diagnosis

Morphine can affect functionality of Clopidogrel. There is an article in JACC, March 2014, that showed “Morphine delays clopidogrel absorption, decreases plasma levels of clopidogrel active metabolite, and retards and diminishes its effects,

This is an old study by Annals of EM, The Role of Cardiac Risk Factor Burden in Diagnosing Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Emergency Department Setting, Feb 2007. Of 10,806 eligible patients, 871 (8.1%) had acute

After long wait! for JNC 8, it came online on Dec18, 2013. It was a long journey between JNC 7 and 8, it took 10 years! and now it is not endorsed by NHLBI(National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute).

This is the last update in 2012, but I am happy to end this year with one of the most challenging topics in medicine. The article is from J Am Coll Cardiol in Dec. You can find the Full text link here 1. Remeber: Troponin elevation imparts a worse prognosis, irrespective of the underlying etiology.

JACC in 2001 published an article that nicely explained the necessity of interpreting lead aVR in clinical setting. There are 3 categorizes that we should consider in this regard:1. acute coronary syndromes, 2. acute PE, 3. arrhythmia. I strongly recommend you to take a look to the following link JACC article

  What does typical chest pain mean? Traditionally, we thought that midsternal chest pain with radiation to left arm and increased with exertion, we just had another discussion on this topic on our grand round and all the studies and even

What is your favorite hypertension numbers to treat in ED? there are a lots of controversies regarding the exact number to start treatment in ED but recent Cochrane review on mild HTN suggest that antihypertensive agents used in the treatment of adults with hypertension stage I (systolic BP 140-159 mmHg and/or diastolic BP 90-99 mmHg)

Annals of Emergency Medicine published an article which it provided a formula to determine if we can differentiate between STEMI vs Early Repolarization. I really do not know in an acute setting I am able to sit down and calculate this but sometimes in terms of training it could be fun to do this practice!!!

I read this article long time ago but I had a discussion with one of my resident and to give her reference I would like to have it here. Basically this study showed that Syncope and Near syncope has same critical interventions or adverse outcomes. This term should be taking care as we care about […]

There is a State-of-the-Art Paper in the latest edition of Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 2012.The title of article is New Concepts in the Assessment of Syncope. The authors perspective was based on the presence of a syncope specialist (“the right physician”), adequate equipment including online prompting tools and logistics (“the right […]

We always taught that Morphine can decrease preload and can help with anxiety and  pain in acute flash pulmonary edema. But evidence does not support this Claim. 

  This is one of the challenging topics in EM. when should you stop CPR? what parameters do you have to continue versus terminate CPR?