Here is a blog post from Life In the Fast Lane (which is another great emergency medicine blog) which lists some of Dr. Reuben Strayer’s outstanding blog posts. Dr. Strayer’s blog is EM Updates and is outstanding.
Here is the List
- Screencast: How to Think Like an Emergency Physician — a good thing to know!
- Allergy myth: shellfish, iodine and contrast — busted: “The evidence suggests that asking if patients are allergic to shellfish or iodine has no relevance to radiocontrast allergies.”
- Calcium channel blockers for SVT — add verapamil to your adenosine bow.
- Optimise the head during laryngoscopy — lift it!
- Discharge with topical corneal anaesthetic? Yes, you can — research at odds with tradition?
- Strayer Tainter Syncope Algorithm — keep it simple.
- Pulseless, Massive and Submassive PE: Role of lytics — when to bust that clot.
- Resus Medication Dosing of Obese Patients — a handy table to have in the 21st century.
- PO administration of IV ketamine — it works! At least it did for this unhappy little baby.
- Screencast: Advanced Airway Management for the Emergency Physician — a great video primer on cutting edge approaches to emergency airway management. I’ve added it to Own the Airway!It includes an interesting inverse correlation between the heart rates of the patient and the airway doc.
- ACC/AHA Aortic Dissection Guideline — easy steps in the assessment and management of a dreaded true emergency.
- Correction of Critical Hypokalemia —- how much? how fast?
- Traumatic LP for Meningitis — the patient is meant to be the one with the headache…