Quick Pearl of the Day: End Tidal CO2 monitoring has many uses besides for procedural sedation.
-In cardiac arrest low values indicate poor chest compressions
-Rapid jumps in values can indicate ROSC
-Persistently low values (<10) indicate poor prognosis in prolonged cardiac arrest
WikEM is currently collaborating with Osmosis, a medical education company funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create a large bank of medical education questions under an open Creative Commons license. Working with medical students, Osmosis has produced around 650 emergency medicine questions so far. They are now seeking EM residents and attendings to double-check their work and make revisions where necessary. Osmosis is paying EM residents/attendings $1 per question reviewed (marked ready to be published) and $5 for any question that needs to be extensively revised or rewritten, as well as making a donation to WikEM for helping with this process.
If you are interested in helping revise the question pack and making some extra money, fill out the form at: Application Form. Osmosis… Read more
Pediatric Emergency Playbook is a new pediatric EM podcast to help make tough calls when caring for acutely ill and injured children. Check out their great podcasts on:
This post is part of WikEM’s Blog and Podcast Partnership Program.… Read more
Residents and attendings globally can now add information about their residency program to WikEM. The U.S. residencies have been pre-populated. Although most residencies have a central webpage, many of the rotation details are not publicly available and continuously changing. Now new applicants can quickly review a program’s educational curriculum, compare rotations, and learn more about residencies in their country. Faculty can use the resource to learn about the curriculum of other institutions and bring ideas back to their own hospital
To update your residency program:
1. Click on your residency program link
2. If your residency is not on the page you can add it.
3. Load the residency template if your residency hasn’t… Read more
With blunt head trauma, the most frequent question is: “CT brain or no CT brain”: The Head CT in Trauma (clinical decision rule) will help you make your decision.
Other useful guides:
… Read moreBefore your next precipitous delivery arrives in the ED, take a moment to review these important pages for:
… Read moreThanks to all of our current WikEM Editors! Did you know you can join us? Please consider joining our contributor community and become a WikEM editor through our open and transparent promotion process.
Editor in Chief
Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP
Deputy Editor
Daniel G. Ostermayer, MD
Associate Editor
Neil M. Young, MD
Senior Assistant Editor
Aaron Snyder, MD
Marissa Camilon, MD
Michael Holtz, MD
Assistant Editor
Babak Missaghi, MD
Bobak Zonnoor, MD
Joel Miller, MD
Jonathan Osgood, DO
Kenn Ghaffarian, DO
Kevin Lu, MD
Manuel Celedon, MD… Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Holtz on promoting to Senior Assistant Editor.… Read more
There have been a lot of promotions among the core editorial group at WikEM. Without our highly skilled editorial team and the daily contributors, a global emergency medicine knowledge repository would not be possible. Thank you all! Also, all donations to our organization allow us to continue to improve the software for the world to use for free.… Read more
Osmosis.org has a new interview with the Creator and Editor-in-Chief of WikEM, as part their Leaders in Medical Education series. Read some of the history behind how WikEM started.
“If anything should be free and open in this world, then certainly the knowledge to care for your fellow human during an emergency has to be on the top of that list.” -Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH
Over the last six years, we have gone from having just a few people accessing the site per day to tens of thousands of sessions per month with over 100,000 downloads of the app to date. WikEM is now the most popular emergency medicine-specific application in the world and is open to all medical providers (including medical students) across the globe to help edit, as a key open access resource. We can now take that life-saving… Read more