Brèves de garde #emergencymed

#liminalspaces

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39737775/ Comparison of the analgesic dose of intravenous ketamine versus ketorolac in patients with chest trauma: A randomized double-blind clinical trial
(Mahmoodabadi, et al, 2024) #ketamine #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #pain #EmergencyMed
Comparison of the analgesic dose of intravenous ketamine versus ketorolac in patients with chest trauma: A randomized double-blind clinical trial - PubMed

Ketamine can be an effective analgesic in patients with chest trauma in acute settings with or without rib fracture.

PubMed

As I was making coffee this morning I remembered a particularly funny exchange I had with a guy I was working with when we had to go to a fairly remote part of the South Shore on the coast in the middle of a hurricane.

#EMS #EmergencyMed #MedMastodon

shortages/illness, being underpaid/overworked, swamped A&Es with providers already burned out/suffering moral injury — one can only handle so much.🙏 https://bbc.in/3GBlJdk

#EmergencyMed #EmergencyPhysicain #uk #covidsars2 #medtwiiter #bbc END

Pressure on the NHS is unsustainable, medics warn

Chair of the BMA council, Professor Phil Banfield, is calling on the government to "take immediate action".

BBC News
situations, when patient info. is incomplete and when patients present with atypical complaints. Agree that more effort/research needs to be undertaken to better understand how docs can avoid making costly diagnostic errors and do better. It's tricky! We do not want to overtest—that has it's own slew of problems/costs/harms to patients. #Emergency #MedicalDecisionMaking #EmergencyMed

"We should continue to create non-traditional means to connect our patients most efficiently with providers."

#EmergencyMed

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/102163

Don't Waste the COVID Crisis

As the U.S. heads back to 'normal,' we should never return to the old way health systems were run

MedpageToday
@DrRitaMc
Just send out a few messages, and use hashtags with the things you like, such as #coffee or #emergencymed and you’ll see more messages form likeminded people.
Also boost messages on subjects you like.
Must be lots of other ways too, but many of us are a bit new here.
Gudday. #Primarycare #GP from #newzealand ex #EmergencyMed loves #RuralGeneralist loves #FOAMed no time for billionaires who are off their meds / heads / cosy w putin.

I would like to follow people who do #StreetMedicine #StreetMedic #StreetMedics #RiotMedic #RiotMedics #RiotMedicine #FirstAid #MedicalSolidarity

Also interested in following radical medical professionals. Any anarchist/socialist/labor-organizing/whatever #Paramedics or #EmergencyMed #EMS folks or #nurses out there? Anybody doing #FreeClinic or #MSF type work?