EMCrit Project

Well before Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, before Sigourney Weaver crossed galaxies in cryostasis, or Walt Disney was cryopreserved, we have been fascinated by the stasis-like powers of hypothermia.  Given this enthusiasm, we most likely would have reacted with just as much vigor even if the initial trials of hypothermia for out of hospital […]

  A recent article published in the NEJM by Steg et al demonstrates that it is not the efficacy of an intervention that determines the success or failure of a trial, but rather the definition of its endpoints (1). In contrast to the majority of trials examining novel anticoagulants for ACS, Steg et al chose […]

The HINTS exam is a 3-part test designed by Dr. Newman-Toker to clinically exclude a central cause of acute vertigo in patients who present with vertiginous symptoms. HINTS involves most famously, the head impulse test(see diagram below), a maneuver which involves torquing your patients head from midline to 20 degrees of rotation(or Vice Versa)  and […]

  Since Hector Pope published his now infamous study in the April 2000 NEJM, Emergency Physicians ability to clinically differentiate ACS has been called into question(10). Despite the fact the study’s findings that ED physicians missed an almost flawless 0.18% of  chest pain patients who went on to be diagnosed with a MI, we have been […]