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Stroke Prevention in Real-life Practice
We have greatly enjoyed reading the recently published article by McIntyre et al. (1). The authors distributed a 16-question, web-based survey to Canadian residency programs and each scenario involved a 76-year-old man with new atrial fibrillation (AF) and a CHADS2 score of 3. The authors revealed the discordance between clinical guidelines for stroke prevention in AF and the practice of Canadian emergency medicine residents. Despite ranking the risk of adverse events as their most important consideration and the superior safety profile of that non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), residents underused this ...
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - June 5, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Özcan Başaran, Volkan Doğan, Eda Özlek, Bülent Özlek, Murat Biteker Source Type: research

Stroke prevention in real-life practice
We have greatly enjoyed reading the recently published article by McIntyre et al [1] . The authors distributed a 16-question, Web-based survey to Canadian residency programs and each scenario involved a 76-year-old man with new atrial fibrillation (AF) and a CHADS2 score of 3. The authors revealed the discordance between clinical guidelines for stroke prevention in AF and the practice of Canadian emergency medicine residents. Despite ranking the risk of adverse events as their most important consideration and the superior safety profile of those non –vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), residents underused ...
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - June 5, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Özcan Başaran, Volkan Doğan, Eda Özlek, Bülent Özlek, Murat Biteker Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research

The Case Files: Unusual Headache
By Al-Hashimi, Siddhartha DO; Leavens, John MD A 23-year-old woman with a history of migraine headaches presented to the emergency department for a different-than-usual headache. She had a six-day history of intermittent headaches. The onset was at rest, and there was no history of trauma.   The headache was located behind her left eye, and it radiated into the posterior portion of her head. She characterized it as being 8/10 in intensity. Bright lights were reported as an exacerbating factor. The headache was associated with nausea and multiple episodes of emesis. She had 10 episodes of vomiting the evening prior to arri...
Source: The Case Files - June 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: research