Recent years have seen a paradigm shift in cardiac arrest from the traditional mantra of airway, breathing circulation (ABC’s) to circulation, airway, breathing (CAB). This change represents the understanding that circulation is of paramount importance and thus,
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The Role of Intubation in In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
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Amiodarone is Dead
This post discusses the lack of evidence for the use of amiodarone in atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and cardiac arrest.
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Post It Pearls 10.0
Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by.
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Journal Review
Icatibant Doesn’t Improve Outcomes in ACE-I Inuduced Angioedema
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACE-I) are prescribed to millions of patients in the US. Though they are relatively safe, upper airway angioedema is one of the life-threatening adverse effects that we see frequently in the Emergency Department.
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Initial Antibiotic Choice in Uncomplicated Cellulitis
Cellulitis is a common emergency department (ED) presentation. Despite the fact that diagnosis remains relatively straight forward, complexity remains in management in terms of the causative agent and appropriate antibiotic regimen.
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Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
This post delves into local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) syndrome with a focus on recognition and management.
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Environmental Hyperthermia
Severe hyperthermia is life-threatening but easily managed if it is identified rapidly and the patient is aggressively cooled.
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Post-It Pearls 9.0
Teaching on a clinical shift can sometimes be difficult: it’s busy, everyone’s running around and it’s hard to capture a trainees attention. Recently, on twitter, Amal Mattu (@amalmattu) has been posting pictures of his white board teaching: discrete pearls written down and shared with anyone who walks by.
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Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH
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Anand "Swami" Swaminathan is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine in the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Department and assistant residency director of the NYU/Bellevue Emergency Medicine residency program. His interests are in resuscitation medicine, resident education and cutting the knowledge translation window. Swami is an active contributor and supporter of innovations in medicine, particularly Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM). He is a contributor to a number of sites including ALiEM, LITFL, ERCast, and The SGEM. Swami is an associate editor for REBEL EM and REBEL Cast. He is also faculty for the Essentials of Emergency Medicine and Deputy Editor of EM: RAP.