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.
Weight-based emergency dosing at your fingertips!
Check out WikEM’s new Broselow-type weight-based dosing feature under “Critical care quick reference” in the app (or, on the web at http://www.wikem.org/wiki/Critical_care_quick_reference).
Now you’ll always have equipment sizes and medication doses immediately available to you during codes or other emergencies!
-OpenEM Foundation… Read more
We need you! Join our contributor community.
Did you know WikEM is a wiki? Just like Wikipedia, that means our content is provided by our users. Help make free and open access to medical knowledge possible!
If you are a medical practitioner, simply create an account online at www.wikem.org and give back to your favorite medical knowledge-base by helping to improve our content.
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January Newsletter
The January newsletter is out! http://eepurl.com/baCyCv… Read more
Residency Support Thanks
WikEM has always had close ties to EM residency training programs. Harbor-UCLA has always been our greatest supporter and we thank all the residents this year who contribute a lot of great content and edits.
Our newest residency supporter has been UT Southwestern EM residency in Dallas. Their residents have written many high quality pages.
We also thank all the attendings who support residents engaging in actively learning by writing on the wiki.
Thank you all for creating freely available EM core content this year!