Author: Ross Donaldson

Say hello to Fractures.app – your new best friend when it comes to dealing with fractures and bony injuries! This free app is here to make life easier for emergency physicians and healthcare providers, whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out.

Key Features:

• Easy-to-use interface: Use its bone map to select the injured region and get a selection of fractures. You can also search through a comprehensive list with just a keyword.
• Step-by-step guidance: No more guesswork! The app gives you straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions on splint application and managing all sorts of fractures.
• Offline support: No internet? No problem: Get crucial fracture info even when you’re offline, so you’re always ready to roll.
• Trustworthy content & expert-approved:

The My Emergency Department app is designed and developed by emergency medicine physicians for anyone working in the emergency department. It allows a single source of truth for all your team’s guidelines, policies and education content. It also helps streamline communication within the team. The platform is completed free to get started and you can check out more about it here.… Read more

From the creator of Nerve Block comes another free app and figuring out how to manage a laceration just got a lot easier. With Suture.app, you’ll have all the information you could need at your fingertips. Our easy-to-use interface will guide you from start to finish.

As soon as you select the laceration location, you’ll start getting repair recommendations including suture material and sizes, other closure methods (like staples or hair apposition), technique references with guided videos and illustrations and instructions to share with patients including removal timeframes.

Features:

• Comprehensive database of laceration types and complications
• Library of repair techniques with videos and illustrations (from Dr. Brian Lin’s Closing the Gap)
• Generate procedure

The nuMose search engine was recently launched by Harbor-UCLA graduate, Zahir Basrai. This advanced search engine is tailored specifically to the needs of emergency physicians and includes the ability to search case reports, guidelines, and pediatric specific results. It also incorporates crowdsourcing into its search algorithm, to help users find the best articles for a particular search.

Check out the website at: https://numose.com

A 4 min video demonstrating how to best use the site is also available here.

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In this era of social distancing and online learning, check out Trauma ICU Rounds, new podcast by Dr. Dennis Kim, that provides concise, clinically relevant information on topics that span the spectrum of critical care, emergency general surgery, and trauma surgery. You can find it on its website, iTunes, or the other major directories. … Read more

Ever wonder who puts all the great content in WikEM and keeps it up to date? Well, you do! WikEM is a wiki, open to medical providers around the world. Join our contributor community and help ensure this fantastic open-access resource has the most accurate and recent information ready at your fingertips. While you’re at it, you can additionally be recognized as a WikEM editor through our open and transparent promotion process. Join us!

Sincerely,
The WikEM Editors

Editor in Chief
Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP

Deputy Editor
Daniel G. Ostermayer, MD

Senior Editor
Claire Lewis, MD
Michael Holtz, MD
Neil M. Young, MD

Senior Associate Editor
Kevin Lu, MD… Read more

You may have noticed algorithm diagrams supplementing various topics on WikEM. They’re part of the WikEM Algorithm Project, a continuing partnership with ddxof.com (differential diagnosis of). The WikEM algorithms are developed to serve as rapid emergency department references for differential diagnosis generation, clinical decision rule application, and critical management steps. They also serve as convenient teaching tools for educators.

You can now freely access all of the over 100 algorithms on your mobile device with the ddxof app. Download it today on the App Store and Google Play.… Read more

PEMsource is a pediatric emergency medicine resource site curated by the faculty and fellows of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center pediatric emergency medicine fellowship. It has quick links to a range of tools (e.g. BiliTool), FOAM posts, key pediatric algorithms, evidence based reviews, sample ECGs, images, and more. Check it out before you see your next pediatric patient!… Read more