Note to myself: I’ve reviewed and placed the show notes to these topics in separate posts to reinforce my retention and to make the topics notes easier to find in the blog’s search function.
In addition to today’s resource I link to:
- Clinical Practice Guideline by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults [PubMed Abstract] [Full-Text HTML] [Full-Text PDF]. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 73, Issue 5, 1 September 2021, Pages e1029–e1044, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab549
Published: 14 June 2021 - 2023 American Heart Association Focused Update on the Management of Patients With Cardiac Arrest or Life-Threatening Toxicity Due to Poisoning: An Update to the American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation. 2023 Oct 17;148(16):e149-e184. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001161. Epub 2023 Sep 18. [PubMed Abstract] [Full-Text HTML] [Full-Text PDF].
Today, I review, link to, and excerpt from Emergency Medicine Cases‘ EM Quick Hits 54 Button Battery Ingestion, C. difficile, ECG in Tox, Bed Bugs, Fibrinogen in Trauma, Cold Air for Croup.*
* Helman, A. Ostrow, O. Long, B. McLaren, J. Mullally, J. Petrosoniak, A. Morgenstern J. EM Quick Hits 54 – Button Battery Ingestion, C. difficile, ECG in Tox, Bed Bugs, Fibrinogen in Trauma, Cold Air for Croup. Emergency Medicine Cases. January, 2024. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/em-quick-hits-january-2024/. Accessed January 23, 2024.
All that follows is from the above resource.
Emergency Medicine Cases‘ EM Quick Hits 54 Button Battery Ingestion, C. difficile, ECG in Tox, Bed Bugs, Fibrinogen in Trauma, Cold Air for Croup
Podcast production, editing and sound design by Anton Helman
Written summary & blog post by Shaila Gunn and Brit Long, edited by Anton Helman
Note to myself: I’ve reviewed and placed the show notes to these topics in separate posts to reinforce my retention and to make the topics notes easier to find in the blog’s search function.
Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Olivia Ostrow on the management of pediatric button battery ingestions and impaction (1:15)
Brit Long on c. difficile infection (19:15)
Jesse McLaren on an approach to ECGs in the poisoned patient (26:34)
Joe Mullally on the identification and treatment of bed bug bites (31:50)
Andrew Petrosoniak on fibrinogen replacement in bleeding trauma patients (38:30)
Justin Morganstern on cold air for management of croup (48:35)
