Emergency Medicine Articles

Asthma

• Norwak – FEV1 admission criteria for asthma
• Rowe – Effectiveness of Steroid therapy in Acute Asthma

Cardiology

• Becker – Outcome of CPR – Where are the Survivors?
• Eisenberg – Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
• Gibler – Chest Pain Center
• Kellerman – In Hospital Resuscitation after field arrest
• McCarthy – Missed Diagnosis of AMI in the ED
• Rusnak – Common Features of Lawsuits missed MI

Critical Care

• Arabi – Intensive vs. conventional insulin therapy in critically ill patients

General Surgery

• Alverado – Practical Score for Acute Appendicitis

Infectious Diseases

• DeWaele – Management of Necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections
• Gransden – risk factors for Pseudomonas

Interesting Lessons

• Blair – Eval of IMA ligation for relief of angina pectoris
• Diamond – IMA ligation vs. Sham for Angina
• Cobb – evaluation of IMA ligation – double blind study

Laceration Repair

• Bartfield – Buffered vs. Plain Lidocaine for nerve blocks
• Christoph – Pain reduction with buffering local anesthetic
• ed. Lido with pi for digital nerve blocks

Neurology

• Rutherford – Symptoms at 1 year following concussion from minor head injury
• Thorn – Delayed Neuropsychiatric sequelae after CO poisoning

Pain Control

• Neighbor – AEM_1998 – toradol vs. Mortin

Pediatrics

• Baraff – Pediatric fever without a source 0-36 months
• Quinn – Suture vs. dermabond in kids facial laceration

Toxicology

• Callaham – Epidemiology of fatal TCA ingestion
• Kulig – Acute Poisoning without Gastric Emptying