by Samara Adler | Mar 20, 2025 | emergency, Featured, Full Article, Grand Round Summaries, Thrombosis
You are working in the low acuity zone of the ED when you encounter your first patient. She’s a 75-year-old female with a history of hypertension, diabetes and total right hip replacement 1.5 months ago presenting with left leg swelling and pain. You see the patient...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Toxicology
Here, we seek to explore some controversial, poorly known, or irrelevant drugs in medicine in a menagerie of drug cocktails. 1. What drugs best treat SVT? A patient presents with the following rhythm strip, they’re totally stable, on no medications and with no...
by emottawa | Dec 7, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4.5/5 Usefulness Score: 4.5/5 Appelboam A, Reuben A, Mann C, et al. Lancet. 2015 Aug 24. pii: S0140-6736(15)61485-4. Full Article The REVERT trial, a pragmatic, multicenter RCT evaluating the efficacy of a...
by emottawa | Apr 27, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club summary Methodology Score: 2/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Szelényi Z, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Nov;20(11):1121-30. Abstract Link This retrospective cohort study found that the Vereckei algorithm for differentiating between VT and SVT...
