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The JournalFeed podcast for the week of August 5-9, 2024. Monday Spoon Feed :  For acute ischemic stroke patients with recent DOAC ingestion who (1) had their DOAC level measured, (2) had DOAC reversal with idarucizumab, or (3) inadvertently received thrombolytics with DOAC subsequently discovered, there was not evidence of increased significant intracranial hemorrhage associated with off-lab...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 29 – August 2, 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. Thursday Spoon Feed : This retrospective study found increased use of unfractionated heparin (UFH) relative to low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and direct oral anticoagulants...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 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. Thursday Spoon Feed : The first direct comparison of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment-Alcohol Revised (CIWA-Ar) scale to a slightly modified Richmond Agitation and Sedation...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 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. Tuesday Spoon Feed : In a cohort of septic children, delays in antibiotic administration 330 minutes or longer from arrival to the emergency department led to an increase in mortality....

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 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. Tuesday Spoon Feed : GRACE-4 is packed with practice-changing recommendations for patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and cannabinoid hyperemesis...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 1-5th , 2024. Monday Spoon Feed :  The only strong recommendation for corticosteroid use was in patients needing to be hospitalized with severe community acquired pneumonia. The panel recommended against high-dose/short duration corticosteroids in patients with septic shock. Tuesday Spoon Feed :  In pediatric patients who have an Alvarado...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 24-29, 2024. Tuesday Spoon Feed : In a cohort of febrile infants, the performance of WBC, ANC, and CRP decreased in patients with less than 2 hours of fever; PCT remained similar.   Thursday Spoon Feed : Ketamine has been shown to be efficacious in managing acute pain conditions in the emergency department (ED), and this study showed equal efficacy...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 17-21, 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. Thursday Spoon Feed: This bias-adjusted meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCT) finds a one-month mortality benefit in trauma patients receiving tranexamic acid (TXA) during...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 10-14, 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: This was a validation study for the recently published American College of Cardiology (ACC) Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for chest pain. Results suggest this pat...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 3-7, 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 this RCT, successful intubation on the first attempt in critically ill neonates was much higher in patients when video laryngoscopy (VL) was used compared to direct...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 27-31, 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 : A retrospective study of 60 patients who received a fixed-dose ketamine of 250 mg by EMS observed that 6 were intubated in the ED. There was no association between we...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 20-24, 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 : This review article illustrates the evidence-based “no-zone” approach in managing penetrating neck injuries, with a reliance on clinical symptoms as well as multidete...

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...