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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:

• PECARN Head CT Rule
• Pediatric Head Trauma
• CT Brain Interpretation

Before your next precipitous delivery arrives in the ED, take a moment to review these important pages for:

• Breech Delivery
• Umbilical Cord Prolapse
• Shoulder Dystocia

Thanks 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

Antibiotics are hard to remember and during a busy shift we all just want a quick place to refresh our memory.  The quick reference by system diagnosis provides a list of all the major treatments across the wiki.  Updating a dosing or adding alternative treatments will update the antibiotic on all necessary pages and allow the world free and up to date access to antibiotic dosing.

 … Read more

We’re pleased to announce that after a thorough review of our finances, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently recognized the OpenEM Foundation, the overarching organization supporting WikEM, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity.

Please donate now and help make open access to medical knowledge possible for all!

If there are any universals in this world, then chief among them is an innate human desire to care for our fellow beings when in suffering and extremis. Our goal is to make sure the knowledge to perform that important task is freely available to all. Thank you for your generous support.

The June Newsletter is out. Topics include hemophilia, Lyme disease, mammalian bites, and arthritis.… Read more