Its that time of year again when the risk of CO poisoning is on the rise. AMS? Should you be reaching for that ABG needle? Does your department own a co-oximeter? Does its readings correlate? Take a moment and review WikEM – Carbon Monoxide Toxicity.… Read more

Want to see patients when you are outside of your home facility, but worried about the malpractice risk? Push Health now has the perfect solution: per service medical malpractice insurance. If you qualify and become an affiliate, your patients pay a $5 fee at the time of services and you are covered with standard malpractice insurance when using Push Health’s mobile and internet software. It is that simple.

Now, you can invoice, message, keep medical records, and order laboratory tests for your concierge patients, friends, and family, all while being covered by medical malpractice insurance. Build your own practice with Push Health!

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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

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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

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