Hey all, this is just a short snippet, not a full blog post. As the 2012 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines were just released, I’m just making a few comments and directing you to Scott Weingart’s great podcast on the guidelines. Everyone who takes care of emergent/critical care sepsis patients needs to take 18 minutes of their […]
Thiamine Before Glucose will not cause Wernicke’s Encephalopathy
If there’s one area of medicine that suffers from more dogma than any other, it’s toxicology. I’m not razzing tox, I love tox. But management in toxicology usually = throw kitchen sink at patient, followed by a case report that concludes the last intervention done just prior to the patient improving is a new treatment […]
SOCMOB How to: Make your own Cricothyrotomy Trainer
Who has done a cricothyrotomy? Who thinks they would be comfortable doing a cric if asked? Without having a code brown first? Though I have done a few tracheostomies (only three on live people), I’ve never done a cric on anyone. Furthermore, when it’s time to cric, we need to be ready. Unfortunately, we can’t […]
Drinking the PPI Hate-O-Rade
Hi all, sorry about the extended hiatus. I was away after Christmas for about 12 days and have been getting back in the swing of things over the past week. Since the break, one great new blog that has popped up on the FOAMed landscape is the boringem blog, started by Brent Thoma, one of […]
Choosing your Battles: My Christmas Pearl of 2012
This blog post isn’t about EBM or getting my hate on about antiquated dogma; it is about a useful pearl that I think can benefit all of my like-minded, avant-garde, #FOAMed friends out there. In particular, this is a piece of advice that the “young whippersnapper” types like myself should pay attention to. Last week […]