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Author: Salim Rezaie

FOAM Impact Study Follow Up

Online educational resources, social media, and asynchronous education increasingly dominate innovation and continuing medical education for practicing emergency physicians. The “Free Open-Access Medical Education” (FOAM) movement has utilized the power of global connectivity to drive narrowing of the knowledge translation …

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Renal and Genitourinary

Hate Using Electronic Hospital Records? An Evaluation of Medical Scribes in Emergency Departments.

Background: Emergency Physicians and trainees spend the majority of their clinical day performing clerical tasks which are widely disliked(Füchtbauer LM, 2013). Core tasks such as obtaining information, cognitive synthesis and communication are punctuated with other tasks including hours of electronic hospital …

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No More Heparin for NSTEMI?

Background: The 2014 AHA guidelines for the management of NSTEMI, recommend unfractionated heparin with an initial loading dose of 60IU/KG (maximum 4,000 IU) with an initial infusion of 12 IU/kg/hr (maximum 1,000 IU/hr) adjusted per active partial thromboplastin time to maintain …

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Cardiovascular

FOAM Impact Study

Online educational resources, social media, and asynchronous education increasingly dominate innovation and continuing medical education for practicing emergency physicians. The “Free Open-Access Medical Education” (FOAM) movement has utilized the power of global connectivity to drive narrowing of the knowledge translation …

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Renal and Genitourinary

REBELCast Ep62 – US Guided PIVs with Jacob Avila, MD

Welcome back to REBELCast.  In this episode we talked with Jacob Avila about US guided PIVs. Difficult IV access in an already busy department can be a frustrating thing, but it doesn’t have to be.  Patients and providers are often frustrated …

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Procedures and Skills

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