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Have you heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy? As active adult learners, we must be conscientious about the what, how, and why we are reading a piece of literature. Being conscientious makes us more efficient, selective, and critical about what we learn. This in turn will help us to provide better care for our patients, which is after all our main goal. Although mainly used to develop curricula, I believe that understanding Bloom’s taxonomy and applying it to our learning may help us to learn more effectively. Bloom’s taxonomy can help us identify learning objectives that require higher level of cognitive function, which helps us to be better problem solvers.

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Can you list the difficult airway predictors? Do you know the mnemonics: MOANS, LEMON, RODS, and SHORT?  

Where's the best place to suffer cardiac arrest? Seattle? Las Vegas? Who's going to give me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? Will someone know how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED)? Where is the BEST place to experience a cardiac arrest??? As luck would have it, the best place would be at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. On [+] The post Best place to suffer a cardiac arrest? appeared first on ALiEM.

Large-sized abscess often have pus trapped in deep crevices and pockets. Irrigation can help express the pus. How can you set up a high-volume irrigation system?