JournalFeed

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...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 20-24, 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. Thursday Spoon Feed: In a randomized control trial of 367 discharged infants with bronchiolitis, enhanced home nasal suctioning with a mechanical device did not lead to reduced unschedule...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 13-17, 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: There is a nonlinear inverse dose-response trend between daily step count and all-cause death and cardiovascular disease, with progressive risk reductions starting at...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 6-10, 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. Wednesday Spoon Feed: Contact precaution (CP) for patients with MRSA infection or colonization is listed as an "essential practice" for all U.S. hospitals, but should it be? Thursday Spoon...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 30 Nov 3, 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: After a non-diagnostic screening ultrasound for appendicitis, a rapid-MRI has high clinical accuracy in establishing the appropriate diagnosis (appendicitis or not)...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 23-27, 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: Emergency physician (EP) advancing age was associated with higher 7-day patient mortality. This is a wake-up call to keep up. Whether with JournalFeed or others, your p...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 18-20, 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: Opioids, other than codeine, were found to be more effective when compared to non-opioids for treatment of acute musculoskeletal pain after ED discharge. However, they...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 9-13, 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: Children who viewed a 1-minute firearm safety video* exhibited safer behaviors around inert firearms staged in a playroom. With firearm-related deaths overtaking motor...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 2-6, 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 prospective observational cohort study found implementing a protocol for peripheral norepinephrine (NE) decreased median number of central venous catheter (CVC) day...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 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. Thursday Spoon Feed: This RCT found residents using a pediatric cardiac arrest app better adhered to the pediatric cardiac arrest algorithm when compared to those using a PALS visual aid...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 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: While it doesn’t have great specificity, the sensitivity of ultrasound makes it a viable first step in making the diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess. Wednesday Spoon F...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Setp 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:  Children with persistent or worsening rhinosinusitis experienced a modest improvement in symptoms when given amoxicillin-clavulanate vs. placebo. Friday Spoon F...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 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. Tuesday  Spoon Feed: In this video review, information contained in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patient handoffs was highly variable, which is an area for quality improvem...

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Aug 28 – Sept 1, 2023. These are summaries from just 3 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: Through education and advocacy, we can reduce the risk of global nuclear conflict. You have more power to change the world than you might think. Tuesday Spoon Fee...