Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 140

In this study of 187 traumatic arrest patients, the survival rate was 3.2%. The authors found that if the patient had no cardiac motion AND no pericardial effusion, the mortality was 100%. This potentially identifies a group in which providers should not be subjected to the risks of thoracotomy. Recommended by Anand Swaminathan The Best of the Rest Emergency medicine Cheng YJ et al. The Role of Macrolide Antibiotics in Increasing Cardiovascular Risk. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015. PMID 26564594 The harm is small – 1 in ~25,000 prescriptions – but this is another call to avoid unnecessary use of macrolide antibiotics when feasible. Recommended by RPR Emergency medicine Body R et al. The value of symptoms and signs in the emergent diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes. Resuscitation. 2010. PMID 20036454 Great paper by the Manchester group (ft Rick Body & Simon Carley) on what HPI features make ACS more likely. The winners: radiating to arms, vomiting ,central chest pain, and sweating observed. Rest pain or left arm radiation aren’t helpful. Obviously ACS workup and diagnosis is complicated and these aren’t changing my management a ton. I find them most helpful when negative to document discharge for low risk chest pain, and when positive to ratchet up my concern (more repeat ECGs, etc). Recommended by Seth Trueger Education Duffy C et al. Social media and Anaesthesia Journals. BJA 2015. PMID 26582860 Short correspondence in BJA highlighting not ...
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