Current section editor and American Resident Project Fellow Marissa Camilon, MD recently interviewed with Figure 1 about the power of information technology to advance medical education. The goal of WikEM has always been to bring open medical knowledge and to the patient’s bedside around the world.… Read more
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Turn your phone into a mobile medical practice!
WikEM is grateful to announce its first sponsor: Push Health, a free and innovative service that turns your phone into a mobile medical practice. E-prescribe, order labs, message patients, and earn some extra money.
Find out more at Push Health!… Read more
Top 10 Reasons to Share your Knowledge by Editing WikEM
WikEM isn’t just the premier emergency medicine bedside reference, it’s also a wiki, meaning that our users collaborate to provide our content. Have you really not made an edit yet? Here are some reasons you should:
- It’s fun!
- It’s educational.
- It will make you a better clinician.
- It’s social. Interact with the new cohort of intelligent #FOAMed clinicians, who are making medical education free and openly available on the web.
- You are helping providers around the world have access to free and current medical information. (Why donate outdated textbooks when you can put content online for free download?)
- It gives you something to do on those late night shifts, instead of making inflatable turkey’s with disposable gloves (which are pediatric choking
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
WikEM is one of the Top 10 most popular EM websites!
An analysis of internet popularity finds WikEM to be one of the Top 10 most popular emergency medicine websites in 2014 (http://www.xn--aciltp-t9a.com/best-of-2014-emergency-website). Thank you to everyone who has helped contribute to this great resource and helped make free and open access to medical knowledge possible!… 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.