Kavita Joshi and Alex Koyfman from UTSW have put together a nice review bedside reference for Pertusis… Read more
Author: Dan Ostermayer
Influenza and Antivirals
The CDC recommends Neuraminidase inhibitors for the treatment of hospitalized patients and outpatients at risk for complications from influenza. It is important to counsel patient on the potential adverse effects of the medications. In general the agents will shorten the duration of symptoms by 14-16 hours but can produce headache, nausea vomiting and even psychiatric symptoms.… Read more
Urine Tox Screen Cross Reactivity
The urine tox screen has little clinical usefulness in the emergent workup of a poisoned or altered paitient and in general should not be ordered reflexively. This page lists the cross reactivity of many substances with the standard urine tox assay.… Read more
Emergent Delivery
The Emergent Delivery page highlights the stages of labor, basics of delivery, complications and postpartum emergencies.… Read more
February Newsletter
Great content in this months February newsletter for critical care and microbiology. Read: http://eepurl.com/bc484r… Read more
New Android App
Our android app also has a completely new redesign and improved speed and functionality. If you have the prior app installed everything should auto update. The app is live in the Google Play Store.… Read more
New iOS version
Today our new iOS app version 5.0 is released. It is the first step in our move towards unifying the interface of android and iOS. The most significant change will be the sidebar interface. We have made favorites much more prominent in the app so that quick access to frequent pages are easy during a clinical shift.
January Newsletter
The January newsletter is out! http://eepurl.com/baCyCv… Read more
Residency Support Thanks
WikEM has always had close ties to EM residency training programs. Harbor-UCLA has always been our greatest supporter and we thank all the residents this year who contribute a lot of great content and edits.
Our newest residency supporter has been UT Southwestern EM residency in Dallas. Their residents have written many high quality pages.
We also thank all the attendings who support residents engaging in actively learning by writing on the wiki.
Thank you all for creating freely available EM core content this year!
December Newsletter
Check out our December newsletter… Read more