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Intro to Editing: Templates
Using templates to organize information on the wiki becomes increasingly more useful as content grows. In a nutshell templates are pages that contain information that can be inserted on any page. If the content on the template changes it is automatically updated on every page that uses the template.
The best examples are the Sgarbossa’s Criteria page and the STEMI page. Both pull their information from the Sgarbossa’s Template and allow any updates to Sgarbossa to be reflected everywhere the template was used.
Create a new template just as you would any page except begin the name with “Template:”. To insert the template on another page type {{Template NAME}} and it will automatically bring in the content.
We know this can get confusion so don’t hesitate to… Read more
Resident Editor: Jonathan Osgood
Congrats to Dr. Jonathan Osgood, from Harbor-UCLA for achieving Resident Editor status!… Read more
Editor Spotlight: Joel Miller
Joel Miller, MD MPH joined WikEM within the last year but quickly became involved on the site, especially in the Toxicology section where he now serves as one of the section editors.
Joel graduated from Wayne State School of Medicine and also completed an MPH in Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He is currently a resident in Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. Impressively, he is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Western New England University where he teaches Pathophysiology and Toxicology.
When not in the ED, teaching Tox, or contributing to WikEM, Joel likes to walk his giant dogs through the woods of New England, rock climb and travel.
WikEM News: GEMC
Here is our latest newsletter announcing mobile access to the GEMC project on all iOS devices. An android version will be in the works soon and you can always access the GEMC on the Web
Journal Club: DL vs VL in Trauma
This month, we will be reviewing the Effect of video laryngoscopy on trauma patient survival: a randomized controlled trial, published in Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery by Yeatts et al. The study was a randomized controlled performed at the Maryland Shock where patients either received direct laryngoscope or glidescope assisted video laryngoscopy.
The study had a patient centered primary outcome of survival to hospital discharge and no difference was found between the two groups. There was, however, interesting subgroup findings useful for generating the next hypothesis.
Editor Spotlight: Jordan Swartz
We are going to start a new series on the blog, to introduce the world to our most active wiki editors. We have a very dedicated group of senior and resident editors who are actively creating new content, ensuring integrity, and fact checking WikEM.
Let me introduce Jordan Swartz MD, one of the longest and most prolific contributors to WikEM. Jordan graduated from NYU School 
of Medicine and started contributing to WikEM as an intern at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. After finishing residency, he completed a Master’s in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where he focused on the intersection of medicine, design, and informatics.
When not improving healthcare information systems, working in the ED, and editing WikEM, he takes fantastic photos and plays guitar.
Journal Club March
We are a little late this month but as a followup to the CRASH-2 trial journal club last month we are going to be reading MATTERs .
MATTERs (Military Application of Tranexamic acid in Trauma Emergency Resuscitation Study) was a retrospective study in military trauma patients from 2009-2010 requiring transfusion.
The study addressed a significant criticisms of the CRASH-2 Trial where only 5% of patients had bleeding as a cause of death.
Two great reads in addition to the article before starting to edit.
Intro to Editing 4: Adding Pictures
Uploading images to the wiki is easy. You have two options:
1. On the main page the Upload Wizard will walk you through the whole process and even allow for credits and copyright acknowledgements.
2. While editing an article or creating a new one you can choose the upload button to upload an image.
For example:
[[File:Hangman fracture.png|thumb|Hangman's Fracture]] will display the hangman fracture image as a thumbnail with the caption "Hangman's Fracture"… Read more Intro to Editing 3: Bulleted lists
The core points of a wikem article should be represented in lists to allow for easy bedside referencing. Numbered lists are great for differential diagnosis and treatment steps, but most content lends itself to bulleted lists.
* Start each line * with an (*). ** More asterisks give deeper *** and deeper levels. **** Jumping levels creates empty space. Starting a new line without an asterix ends the list.
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- But jumping levels creates empty space.
- More asterisks give deeper
Starting a new line without an asterix ends the list
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