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POCUS for Endotracheal Tube Confirmation

Background Information: The successful placement of an endotracheal tube (ETT) is a necessary skill all emergency physicians must possess. Performing life-saving interventions are understandably stressful as their failure can lead to morbid consequences and expedited patient death.1,2 The intensive training of ...

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Procedures and Skills

Pediatric Concussion…Why is it such a headache?!

Diagnosis and management of concussion in children is part of our everyday bread and butter in the Emergency Department. Given the estimated 1.1 million – 1.9 million pediatric concussions we see annually in the United States, it is no wonder ...

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PediatricsTrauma

Focused FOAMed – The Learners Lens

Background: This is a guest post from two of our friends all the way in Italy.  They have actually sent several revisions of this post as a way to help learners focus on different aspects of FOAMed.  One of the major ...

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Titles Don’t Make Leaders

When I was a kid, I used to play chess with my grandfather every day.  Each piece on the chess board had unique moves that could be made in order to help win and capture the other person’s king (i.e. ...

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The HOUR Trial: Clinical Decision Rule for Opioid Overdose Patients in the Emergency Department

Background Information: In 2017, more than two-thirds of the 70,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States involved an opioid.1 Many emergency departments are affected as opioid overdoses increased 30% from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in ...

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Toxicology

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