Background: COVID-19 vaccination is ramping up both in the US as well as throughout the world. Randomized clinical trials looking at the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines demonstrated 94% to 95% reductions in symptomatic cases (Polack 2020). Randomized clinical trials ...
Background Information: Corneal abrasions are responsible for the largest proportion of eye-related chief complaints in patients presenting to emergency departments in the United States. There is substantial variability in physician practice when it comes to pain control. Ophthalmology literature has ...
Background: Israel has succeeded in ramping up its vaccination program faster than any nation in the world. In December 2020, Israel began a national immunization campaign prioritizing health-care workers. In the original clinical trial data, the Pfizer vaccine was estimated ...
Background: While we try not to think about it, the spectre of litigation hovers around the house of medicine. Medical malpractice books have been written, physicians have found their niche discussing and writing about it and blogs have been started ...
Procrastination is simply put, a voluntary delay of tasks that we intend to do. In this REBEL Core Cast, Anand Swaminathan, MD and Marco Propersi, DO sit down and talk about why we procrastinate and steps we can each take ...
Background: Chest pain is one of the most frequent presenting patient complaints in emergency departments (ED) and has an extensive differential diagnosis with very different levels of severity (1). Many of these chest pain presentations require a significant stay in ...
Background: A major challenge during the COVID pandemic is balancing personal protection and communication. Being heard while wearing a surgical mask or N95 isn’t too much of a challenge, communication can be significantly impaired while wearing a respirator mask. There ...
Introduction: Chest pain is a common reason or presentation to the Emergency Department (ED). Emergency physicians are often challenged to identify patients who are at high risk for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), from those with low risk, who might ...
Background: The publication of the MR CLEAN trial in January 2015 changed the face of ischemic stroke care. This was the first study demonstrating a benefit to endovascular treatment of a specific subset of ischemic stroke patients: those with a ...
Background: Medicine by press release has been an unfortunate reality of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not the standard many physicians would use for medical decision making, but one many of us have had to face; what do I do ...
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