THE IMPORTANCE OF DOCUMENTATION:

  1. Hlibczuk V et al. Diagnostic accuracy of noncontrast computer tomography for appendicitis in adults: a systematic review. Ann Emerg Med 55(1):51, January 2010.
  2. Levey AS et al. Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Group: A more accurate method to estimate glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine: a new prediction equation. Ann Intern Med.1999;130(6):461-470.
  3. Elicker BM, Cypel YS, Weinreb JC. IV contrast administration for CT: a survey of practices for the screening and prevention of contrast nephropathy. Am J Roentgenol186:1651-8.
  4. Hill RG Jr, et al. 4000 clicks: A productivity analysis of electronic medical records in a community hospital ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2013;31(11):1591-1594.

GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND MALPRACTICE LAW:

  1. The Medical Malpractice Rundown: A State-by-State Report Card. Roslund, Greg. (2014, July 21). http://epmonthly.com/article/the-medical-malpractice-rundown-a-state-by-state-report-card/
  2. Waxman et al. The Effect of Malpractice Reform on Emergency Department Care. N Engl J Med 2014; 371:1518-1525.
  3. Nguyen v. SW. Emergency Physicians, P.C., 779 S.E.2D 334 (GA. 2015)
  4. Hosp. Authority of Valdosta/Lowndes Cnty v. Brinson 767 S.E.2d 811, 813 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014)
  5. Johnson v. Omondi, 751 S.E.2d 288 (Ga. 2013)
  6. ACEP Issues Public Censure Against Dr. Peter Rosen for Violating Ethics Code, Expert Witness Guidelines. (2016, September 6). http://www.acepnow.com/article/acep-issues-public-censure/.
  7. Dailey v. Abdul-Samed, 736 S.E.2d 142 (Ga. Ct. App. 2012)

A BLIND SQUIRREL FINDS A NUT:

  1. Groopman J. (2008). How doctor’s think. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.

DECISION RULES:

  1. Sun  BC, Mangione  CM, Merchant  G, et al.  External validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule.  Ann Emerg Med. 2007;49(4):420–427.
  2. Cosgriff  TM, Kelly  AM, Kerr  D.  External validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in the Australian context.CJEM.  2007;9(3):157–161.
  3. Birnbaum A, Esses D, Bijur P, Wollowitz A, Gallagher EJ. Failure to validate the San Francisco Syncope Rule in an independent emergency department population. Ann Emerg Med. 2008;52(2):151–159.
  4. Chunilal S et al. Does this patient have pulmonary embolism? JAMA. 2003;290(21):2849-2858.

WHEN A NEGATIVE TEST MEANS NOTHING:

  1. Molins CR et al. Development of a metabolic biosignature for detection of early lyme disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 11.
  2. Reisfield GM, Goldberger BA, Bertholf RL. ‘False positive’ and ‘false negative’ test results in clinical urine drug testing. Bioanalysis. 2009 Aug;1(5):937-52.
  3. Libby P. Mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes and their implications for therapy. N Engl J Med. 2013;368(21):2004-3.
  4. Weinstock MB et al. Risk for Clinically Relevant Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients With Chest Pain at Hospital Admission. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Jul;175(7):1207-12.
  5. Walker J, Galuska M, Vega D. Coronary disease in emergency department chest pain patients with recent negative stress testing. West J Emerg Med. 2010;11:384-388.

THE WORST KIND OF DOGMA:

  1. Barnhart KT Clinical practice. Ectopic pregnancy. N Engl J Med. 2009; 361(4): 379-87.
  2. Dart RG, Burke G, Dart L. Subclassification of indeterminate pelvic ultrasonography: prospective evaluation of the risk of ectopic pregnancy. Ann Emerg Med. 2002; 39(4): 382-8.
  3. Condous G, Kirk E, Lu C, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of varying discriminatory zones for the prediction of ectopic pregnancy in women with a pregnancy of unknown location. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2005; 26(7): 770-5.
  4. Rausch ME, Barnhart KT. Serum biomarkers for detecting ectopic pregnancy. Clin Obstet Gynecol 2012; 55:418.
  5. Lindahl B, Ahlgren M. Identification of chorion villi in abortion specimens. Obstet Gynecol 1986; 67:79.
  6. Barnhart K et al. Prompt diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy in an emergency department setting. Obstet Gynecol. 1994; 84(6): 1010-5.
  7. Kohn M et al. Beta-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Levels and the Likelihood of Ectopic Pregnancy in Emergency Department Patients with Abdominal Pain or Vaginal Bleeding. Acad. Emerg. Med. 2003;10:119-26.

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS:

  1. J. de Vries et al. Splenic rupture following colonoscopy, a rare complication. Netherlands Journal of Medicine. 67(6): 230–233.

IT’S NEVER JUST THE FLU:

  1. Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Influenza: Information for Clinical Laboratory Directors. (2016, October 26). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/diagnosis/rapidlab.htm
  2. Kumar Y, Mennu M, Mohan P. The Tamiflu fiasco and lessons learnt. Indian J Pharmacol. 2015 Jan-Feb; 47(1): 11–16.
  3. Ebell M, Call M, Shinholser J. Effectiveness of oseltamivir in adults: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished clinical trials. Fam Pract (2013) 30 (2): 125-133.

MEDICINE MEANS LIFE-LONG LEARNING:

  1. Munro JF, Campbell IW, McCuish AC, Duncan LJP. Euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis. BMJ 1973;2:578–80.
  2. Kitabchi AE, Umpierrez GE, Miles JM, Fisher JN. Hyperglycemic crises in adult patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2009;32:1335–43.
    3. Ogawa W, Sakaguchi K. Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis induced by SGLT2 inhibitors: possible mechanism and contributing factors. J Diabetes Investig 2016;7:135–8.
  3. U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug safety communication: FDA revises labels of SGLT2 inhibitors for diabetes to include warnings about too much acid in the blood and serious urinary tract infections [Internet]. 15 May 2015. Available from http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/ucm475463.html.

PAIN IN THE NECK:

  1. Perry JJ, Stiell IG, Sivilotti ML, et al. Sensitivity of computed tomography performed within six hours of onset of headache for diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2011;343:d4277.

DON’T STOP THE WORKUP:

  1. Domanovits H et al. Acute renal infarction. Clinical characteristics of 17 patients. Medicine (Baltimore). 1999;78(6):386-394.
  2. Lopez VM, Glauser J. A case of renal artery thrombosis with renal infarction. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2010;3:302.
  3. Bande D, Abbara S, Kalva SP. Acute renal infarction secondary to calcific embolus from mitral annular calcification. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2011;34:647–649.
  4. Oh et al. Clinical characterstics and outcomes of renal infarction. AJKD. 2016;67(2):243–250.
  5. Winzelberg GG et al. levation of serum lactate dehydrogenase levels in renal infarction. JAMA 1979; 242:268.
  6. Huang CC et al. ED presentations of acute renal infarction. Am J Emerg Med. 2007;25(2):164-169.
  7. Suzer O et al. CT features of renal infarction. Eur J Radiol. 2002;44:59–64.

THE EYE, SIMPLIFIED:

  1. Sheikh A, Hurwitz B. Antibiotics versus placebo for acute bacterial conjunctivitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006: Issue 2. Art No: CD001211. \
  2. AAO Cornea/External Disease PPP Panel, Hoskins Center for Quality Eye Care. Conjunctivitis PPP. ONE Network. Available at http://www.aao.org/preferred-practice-pattern/conjunctivitis-ppp–2013.
  3. Hassan TS et al. The effect of duration of macular detachment on results after the scleral buckle repair of primary, macula-off retinal detachments. Ophthalmology. 2002;109:146–52.

CENTOR CRITERIA:

  1. Bisno AL, Gerber MA, Gwaltney JM Jr, Kaplan EL, Schwartz RH, for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of group A streptococcal pharyngitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2002;35:(2):113–125.
  2. Wessels MR. Clinical practice: streptococcal pharyngitis. N Engl J Med. 2011;364(7):648-655.
  3. Barnett M, Linder J. Antibiotic Prescribing to Adults with Sore Throat in the United States, 1997–2010. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Jan; 174(1): 138–140.
  4. Hayward, G et al. Corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2009;339:b2976.

THREE WORST WORDS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE:

  1. Albert T. Physicians found negligent for not performing CT scan. AMNews staff. April 12, 2004.
  2. Kanzaria H et al. Emergency physician perceptions of medically unnecessary advanced diagnostic imaging. Academic Emergency Medicine 2015;22:390–398.

CARING FOR COWORKERS:

  1. La Puma J et al. When physicians treat members of their own families. N Engl J Med 1991; 325:1290-1294.
  2. Aboff B, Collier V. Farber N. Residents’ prescription writing for nonpatients. JAMA 2002;288(3):381-385.
  3. Clark AW, Kay J, Clark DC. Patterns of psychoactive drug prescriptions by house officers for nonpatients. J Med Educ.1988;63:44-50.

IT’S ABOUT LYME:

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Recommendations for test performance and interpretation from the Second National Conference on Serologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1995; 44:590.
  2. Shapiro ED, Gerber MA, Holabird NB, et al. A controlled trial of antimicrobial prophylaxis for Lyme disease after deer-tick bites. N Engl J Med 1992; 327:1769.
  3. Steere AC. Diagnosis and treatment of Lyme arthritis. Med Clin North Am 1997; 81:179.
  4. Nadelman et al. Prophylaxis with single-dose doxycycline for the prevention of Lyme disease after an Ixodes scapularis tick bite. N Engl J Med. 2001 Jul 12;345(2):79-84.

PATIENTS ALWAYS LIE:

  1. Martí-Ibáñez, Félix (1961), A Prelude to Medical History, New York: MD Publications, Inc., Library of Congress ID: 61-11617.
  2. DeNoon D. (2004, September 21). WebMD Survey: The Lies We Tell Our Doctors. MedicineNet.com. Retrieved from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=46985&page=2
  3. http://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/industryview/patient-deception-report-2014/
  4. Ramoska EA, Sacchetti AD, Nepp M. Reliability of patient history in determining the possibility of pregnancy. Ann Emerg Med. 1989 Jan; 18(1):48-50.
  5. Wrenn K, Slovis CM. The ten commandments of emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 1991 Oct;20(10):1146-7.

SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS:

  1. Kearon C et al. Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report. Chest. 2016 Feb;149(2):315-52.

ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDERS:

  1. Tsai CL et al. Quality of emergency care provided by physician assistants and nurse practitioners in acute asthma. Am J Emerg Med. 2010 May;28(4):485-91.

CHANGING EVIDENCE:

  1. Connolly ES Jr et al. Guidelines for the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2012 Jun;43(6):1711-37.

WELLENS’ SYNDROME:

  1. Kosuge M et al. Electrocardiographic differentiation between acute pulmonary embolism and acute coronary syndromes on the basis of negative T waves. Am J Cardiol 2007; 99:817–821.

ANOTHER STEMI EQUIVALENT:

  1. Verouden NJ et al. Persistent precordial “hyperacute” T-waves signify proximal left anterior descending artery occlusion. Heart. 2009 Oct;95(20):1701-6.

OXYGENARIANS:

  1. Aouini F et al. Acute mesenteric ischemia: study of predictive factors of mortality. Tunis Med. 2012 Jul; 90(7):533-535.
  2. Wroblewski et al. Peritonitis in Geriatric Inpatients. Age and Ageing 20(2):90-4· April 1991.
  3. Sanson TG, O’Keefe KP. Evaluation of abdominal pain in the elderly. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 1996;14:615–627.

IMPORTANCE OF SMILING:

  1. Speroni K et al. Incidence and cost of nurse workplace violence perpetrated by hospital patients or patient visitors. Journal of Emerg Nursing; May 2014; 40(3):218-228.

RULES FOR THE ER:

  1. Ubel P et al. Physicians Recommend Different Treatments for Patients Than They Would Choose for Themselves. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(7):630-634.

FUTURE OF STROKE CARE IS NOW:

  1. Rha JH, Saver JL. The impact of recanalization on ischemic stroke outcome: a meta-analysis. Stroke. 2007;38(3):967-973.

KEEP CALM AND COMPRESS ON:

  1. Nable JV, Lawner BJ, Stephens CT. Airway management in cardiac arrest. Emerg Med Clin N Am. 2012;30:77–90.
  2. Neumar RW, Otto CW, Link MS. Part 8: Adult advanced cardiac life support: 2010 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Circulation. 2010;1222(183):S727–S767.
  3. Wang HE, Yealy DM. How many attempts are required to accomplish out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation? Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13:373–377.

SCRIBES:

  1. Christine Sinsky et al. Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165(11):753-760.
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