Don't get BiTEn by bispecific T-cell engagers - First10EM

Apparently bispecific T-cell engagers can cause time sensitive life threatening side effects that emergency clinicians must know about.

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Your Patient Already Asked ChatGPT
https://www.stemlynsblog.org/your-patient-already-asked-chatgpt/

"For many patients AI isn't seen as the starting point of this conversation. It is seen as the expert against which we as clinicians are measured [...] We're not just managing a temporary problem until AI improves. We're establishing patterns for how clinicians and AI-informed patients interact"

#EMdoc #emdocs #emergencymedicine #emergencyphysician #emergencydepartments #emergencydocs

Your Patient Already Asked ChatGPT

Patients are consulting AI more and more before attending ED. What does the research say, and how should clinicians respond?

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How did your #nightshift went?

When I arrived was like to be in a Creedence Clearwater Revival' song , the shift was like to be in a Cutting Crew' one and going home I just listen to Simon and Garfunkel' one...

Guess the #songs

#emergencymedicine #emergencydocs

https://thesgem.com/2024/10/sgem455-harmony-5000-prehospital-detection-of-large-vessel-occlusion-strokes/

"SGEM Bottom Line: Early stroke identification is important but can be difficult in the pre-hospital setting even with the existing tools"
Via @thesgem

As ED doc involved also in pre-hospital emergency shifts, I totally agree.
Still searching for a reliable "EKG of the brain".

#FOAMed #emergencydepartment #PrehospitalCare #FOAMcc #FOAMresus #stroke #emergencydocs

SGEM#455: Harmony 5000 – Prehospital Detection of Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes - The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

Date: October 2, 2024 Reference: Paxton et al. Headpulse measurement can reliably identify large-vessel occlusion stroke in prehospital suspected stroke patients: Results from the EPISODE-PS-COVID study. AEM Sept 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Westafer an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School – Baystate. She is the co-founder of FOAMcast and a pulmonary

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine - Meet 'em, greet 'em, treat 'em and street 'em

https://first10em.com/gestalt-is-better-than-decision-tools-for-identifying-sepsis/

Gestalt is better than decision tools for sepsis... like to say that tools are just tools, not thinking brain?

#FOAMed #FOAMcc #FOAMresus #CriticalCare #emergencymedicine #emergencydocs

Gestalt is better than decision tools for identifying sepsis - First10EM

Gestalt is better than decision rules for identifying sepsis in the emergency department (obviously, to anyone who reads EBM)

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BiPAP for preoxygenation (the PREOXI trial) - First10EM

A critical appraisal of the PREOXI trial, a multicenter RCT that remonstrates reduced peri-intubation hypoxia with NIPPV

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