Very little about the management of atrial fibrillation is an emergency. And yet we in the Emergency Medicine community have embraced it as such. We gleefully bring to bear the full technological powers available to an Emergency Physician in our attempts to tame its irregular irregularity. Using this aggressive approach, we have proven ourselves quite […]
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The Nihilistic Ramblings of Rory Spiegel, MD
EM Nerd-The Case of the Conspicuous Conclusion
The process of rapid sequence induction (RSI) often forces the clinician to choose between two conflicting priorities. Torn between maintaining a safe level of oxygen, rendering the patient apneic, and limiting the amount of positive pressure ventilatory support given prior to obtaining a secure airway in the hopes of minimizing the risk of aspiration. Traditionally […]
EM Nerd-The Case of the Deceitful Lantern
Since the publication of the sepsis trilogy, PROMISE, ARISE, and PROCESS 1,2,3, abruptly displaced early goal directed therapy (EGDT) as the cornerstone of sepsis management, we have been searching to fill the therapeutic vacuum its sudden departure left behind. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) have both rushed […]
The Case of the Scientific Ruse
February 7th 2019 marked a auspicious day in the history of the NEJM and its relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In 2015, the NEJM shifted their significant weight in support of a strong union between industry and medicine1,2,3. With the simultaneous publication of four pharmaceutical sponsored trials, each brimming with its own unique form of […]
The Case of the Incidental Bystander Continues
In October 2016 the Emergency Medicine community was faced with the publication of the now infamous PESIT trial, and the symbolic wrench its authors carelessly tossed into the already indecisive diagnostic work up of patients presenting to the Emergency Department following a syncopal event1. Published in the NEJM, Prandoni et al enrolled patients who were admitted […]
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