JournalFeed

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 13-17, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed : Serious bacterial infections were exceedingly rare in this study of recently immunized infants 6-12 weeks presenting to the emergency department with a fever. Frid...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 6-10, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed : Utilizing oxygen, rather than room air, for patients with intermediate-risk acute PE may be helpful even if patients are not hypoxemic. We’ll need a study (but not th...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 29 - May 3, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed : The HOT-COVID RCT found that hypoxemic COVID-19 patients in the ICU benefitted from a lower oxygenation target (PaO2 60 mm Hg) by having more days without life...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 22-26, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed : In a controlled hypoxemia study, pulse oximetry was falsely elevated in subjects with darker skin pigmentation and low perfusion. Friday Spoon Feed : In patients wi...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 15-19, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed : In subgroup analysis, there may be more successful ROSC in patients with upper extremity IO access compared to lower extremity access in OHCA, but these results...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 8-12, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed : This external validation compared the 2023 Duke-International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Diagnostic (ISCVID) Criteria against various other cr...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 1-5, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed : This single centre RCT investigated the link between IV cannula diameter and how painful it will be to insert. 18G cannulas were not more painful nor more difficult...

The JournalFeed podcast:  These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed : Using online telemedicine platforms, the authors found that it was appallingly easy to rapidly obtain inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for symptoms of viral URIs by paying a nominal fee....

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 18-22, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed:  This Bayesian network meta-analysis of RCTs indirectly compares hydrocortisone + fludrocortisone to hydrocortisone alone or placebo in septic shock and finds...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 11-15, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: This updated meta-analysis re-demonstrated a benefit for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) in reducing overall in-hospital cardiac arrest (IH...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 4-8, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: A meta-analysis of 15 randomized trials found that ketamine had a quicker analgesic effect than morphine, but morphine exhibited sustained reduction in pain at 120 minu...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 26 – March 1, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This systematic review and meta-analysis concluded, with moderate certainty evidence, that oseltamivir has little to no effect on hospitalization but does increa...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 19-24, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This single-center prospective study found that in 2,275 ECGs with a computerized interpretation of “normal” and “otherwise normal,” there was a negative predictive val...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 12-16, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), patients presenting with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF), receiving short interval (<75ms) dual sequential extern...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 5-9th, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: A prospective study by the PERT Consortium found an in-hospital mortality rate of 20% in patients with high-risk PE. 41.9% of patients with high-risk PE were treated w...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 29 – Feb 2, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In patients hospitalized with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), beta-lactam (BL) only antibiotic regimens have been shown to have increased mortality...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 22-27, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: Chair placement near the bedside is a simple intervention that increased the likelihood of physician sitting during patient encounters and yielded higher patient scores...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 15-19, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This expert opinion piece recommends consideration of nonoperative antibiotic treatment for select cases of uncomplicated acute appendicitis.  Friday Spoon Feed: E...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 8-12, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This expert panel from Canada has compiled a list of what they deem to be the most influential POCUS papers with regard to cardiac arrest as well as evaluation of shock....

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 1-5, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday The best articles of 2023!! Friday Spoon Feed: A prospective, observational study demonstrated that giving sodium bicarbonate to patients undergoing mechanical ventilation or CPR res...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of dec 25-29, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: Treatment of COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (N-R) was associated with virologic rebound (VR) in a prospective observational trial. Viral loads were high enough t...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 18-22, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: For the majority of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients undergoing standard (30:2 compressions:breaths) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prior to definiti...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 11-15, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This secondary analysis of the STOP CP cohort study found that, in isolation, using a 0/2 hour hs-cTnT rule-out protocol did not achieve a NPV ≥ 99% for 30-day cardiac...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 4 - 8, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This single center RCT found no difference in maximum Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score between critically ill adult ED patients receiving ketamine vs et...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 27th – Dec 1st, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This RCT found no differences between high dose (16 mg) and low dose (4 mg) IV dexamethasone in patients who presented to EDs with migraine headaches.&nb...