Anti-D Immunoglobulin is commonly given in 1st trimester pregnancy with bleeding but is it effective in preventing isoimmunization?
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Utility of Anti-D Immunoglobulin(Rho Gam) During First Trimester Pregnancy
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Post-It Pearls 8.0
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. The pearls are often prompted by patients presenting during that shift but they don’t have to be.
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Journal Review
Value of EKG Machine Interpretation
The Emergency Department, by its nature, is interruption driven given it is “uncontrolled and unpredictable and punctuated by intermittent time-critical activities (Chisholm 2000). On average, each Emergency Physician is interrupted 6.6 times per hour while at work; 11 percent of all tasks were interrupted, 3.3 percent of them more than once (Westbrook 2010). One study (Westbrook 2010) calculated that physicians were multitasking 12.8 percent of the time,
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Hip Dislocation
This post discusses the diagnosis, classification and management of hip dislocations in the ED.
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FeminEM at SMACCDub
Over the last year, the SMACC group has released some absolutely amazing talks from SMACCDub in Dublin in June of 2016. In the true spirit of FOAM, all of the content is free for use and reuse. Among the many amazing talks was this one from the FeminEM crew. For all the SMACC talks,
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Surviving Sepsis 2017 Guidelines Overview
This post review the updates in the new surviving sepsis 2017 guidelines.
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