Author: Dan Ostermayer

Updated information for Covid-19 patients with a STEMI. Many hospitals will prefer thrombolytic usage rather than primary PCI in order to limit hospital exposure… Read more

Updates and information regarding covid-19 can be found here.… Read more

Most providers use Cipro/Flagyl for uncomplicated diverticulitis but don’t forget about alternatives such as Amoxicillin/Clavulanate … Read more

A quick review of biologic immunomodulators. The various letters chosen in the name indicated the structure, origin, and targets of the molecule. For example ixekizumab for psoriasis ends with –mab, so it is a monoclonal antibody, has a –u- so it is human and has –ki- which means that it is interleukin targeted.

Also, many new novel onocologic agents carry their own adverse effect.s… Read more

If your mobile app is crashing and lacking content, please uninstall and perform a full update upon re-install. The app needs to download the entire wiki and must be performed on wifi. Please do not let your phone sleep during the process as it will interrupt the download. Due to the size of the wiki we cannot perform a background update. If your phone did turn off the screen during setup please click the blue update button in the app and reattempt initial download. After this initial download, pages will only update if changes have occurred since last viewed.… Read more

Out now! Myths in Emergency Medicine debunks and documents the history and facts behind the most pervasive and common myths in Emergency Medicine.

Available in ebook and paperback… Read more

If you newly installed the app or upgraded your phone and reinstalled the app and don’t see any content, connect to wifi and click the blue update button to download a fresh offline copy of the wiki. The app does not update on cellular by default to prevent data charges due to the size of the initial download that must occur for you to have the entire wiki offline… Read more

Just released, the Kaji Review Volume 3 adds additional questions to the already best selling Kaji Review Volumes 1 and 2! Book sales support the Harbor-UCLA Dept of EM residency fund and WikEM… Read more

You get a patch from EMS that they are bringing in a patient from dialysis with a complication of their AV fistula. Take the time now to update yourself on bleeding fistulas, clotted fistula, and more at WikEM – Dialysis Complications.… Read more

Dosing emergent factor replacement in the management of hemophilia (A &B) requires a small amount of mental math.

• For Hemophilia A: 1 IU rFIX/kg will increase the plasma concentration by 2%
• For Hemophilia B: 1 IU rFIX/kg will increase the plasma concentration by 1%

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