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 […]
Evidence Based Laceration Repair
First, a huge thanks to everyone who has been visiting the site, tweeting and spreading the #FOAMed love. FOAM is all about word of mouth, and having others spread the word drives me to put up more posts. Second, if you have comments or suggestions to improve the blog, questions for me, or myths you’d […]
The Gaco Cycle (No educational content)
Two weeks ago, some of the EM residents and I were in Las Vegas for the Essentials of EM conference. It was a great time, with many highlights, one of which was the first night of drinking with Damjan, AKA the Serbian teddy bear. Damjan’s (pronounced Dam-yin) mission was to get blind drunk ASAP after […]
All about chest tubes
Of all the interventions we perform, chest tube insertion is one of the most dangerous, complicated and misunderstood. Today I’ll discuss not only the myths, but also some unfortunate realities that we must understand when we undertake this procedure.Myth # 1Bigger is betterI’m pretty sure we’ve all been told, partially thanks to ATLS, that we […]