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Author: Salim Rezaie

Apneic Oxygenation (ApOx): A Review of the Evidence in Critical Care & Emergency Medicine

Background: Apneic oxygenation (ApOx) is the passive flow of oxygen into the alveoli during apnea.  This passive movement occurs due to the differential rate between alveolar oxygen absorption and carbon dioxide excretion producing a mass flow of gas from the …

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Resuscitation

The EM Mindset

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) defines Emergency Medicine (EM) as: “The initial evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and disposition of any patient requiring expeditious medical, surgical, or psychiatric care.” I would take this a step further and say these patients …

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Don’t Kill Your Audience with Bulletpoints

It is impossible for the audience to read and listen at the same time.  A person can task switch, but cannot multitask, therefore if they are reading your slides, they are not listening to you.  Vision is one of our …

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Don't Kill Your Audience with Bulletpoints

It is impossible for the audience to read and listen at the same time.  A person can task switch, but cannot multitask, therefore if they are reading your slides, they are not listening to you.  Vision is one of our …

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Redo Data

If there’s one thing that bothers me most in presentations, it’s this: the insertion of data tables into slides.  Often times you’ll see snapshots of random tables taken from an article PDF filled with rows of numbers, p-values, and confidence intervals, occasionally accompanied …

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