Tactical Medicine News Blog

Welcome to the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts from the top 50 sites of the Social Media Index, the ALiEM AIR Team is proud to present the highest quality online content related to ENT emergencies. 8 blog posts within the past 12 months (as of December 2017) met our standard of online excellence and were curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. We identified 1 AIR and 7 Honorable Mentions. We recommend programs give 3 hours (about 20 minutes per article) of III credit for this module.

This month's EM Cases Best Case Ever podcast features Dr. Catherine Varner, Emergency Physician at Sinai Health System and researcher at Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) discussing the key pitfalls in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy and ruptured ectopic pregnancy. It turns out that we're missing the diagnosis more than we'd like to admit. Dr. Varner debunks much of the traditional teaching around ectopic pregnancy so that we can improve our diagnostic skills for this potentially life threatening diagnosis... The post BCE 68 Ectopic Pregnancy Pitfalls in Diagnosis appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

This month's EM Cases Best Case Ever podcast features Dr. Catherine Varner, Emergency Physician at Sinai Health System and researcher at Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) discussing the key pitfalls in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy and ruptured ectopic pregnancy. It turns out that we're missing the diagnosis more than we'd like to admit. Dr. Varner debunks much of the traditional teaching around ectopic pregnancy so that we can improve our diagnostic skills for this potentially life threatening diagnosis... The post BCE 68 Ectopic Pregnancy Pitfalls in Diagnosis appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

This month we have a special guest production team bring you a whiteboard video on Pediatric Trauma. You might have had trouble remembering all the details of Episode 95 Pediatric Trauma with Dr. Sue Beno and Dr. Fuad Alnaji. But don't fret! In this short video Dr. Beno and Dr. Alun Ackery review the most important elements of both pediatric and adult multitrauma management for the community Emergency Physician. They discuss common pitfalls leading to bad pediatric trauma outcomes, airway management, hemodynamics, preparation for transfer to a trauma center and much more... The post Rapid Reviews Video on Pediatric Trauma appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

Background: Bronchiolitis is an acute inflammatory injury of the distal smaller airways, most commonly caused by viral infections.  There have been a host of medications studied in the treatment of bronchiolitis, including steroids, albuterol, epinephrine, and  inhaled hypertonic saline, with none proving to be effective in treatment.  Oxygen therapy via high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) as opposed to standard nasal prongs provides some positive airway pressure which decreases work of breathing, improves oxygenation, and rates of intubation.  The trial we are going to review today (The PARIS Trial) evaluated early high-flow oxygen therapy vs standard oxygen therapy in infants with bronchiolitis and hypoxemia in both the emergency department and general pediatric ward settings.