(some of the many contributors to Wednesday’s #ACEP13 twitter feed – thank you!)
Day 3 by the Numbers
3,395 tweets
548 participants
3 million impressions
Categories (Storified tweets above – hover over photos to see text – at bottom of page, and here)
- Critical care
- Stroke
- Ultrasound
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Giving a Good Talk
- Policy and Practice
- “Hofkata” (Jerry Hoffman + Rick Bukata)
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Pediatric EM/CC
- Drugs of Abuse
Stuff I learned:
- ACEP is reconsidering the tPA policy, there will be a comment period (see Angela Gardner’s tweets)
- A ton of great stuff from the Hof-Kata session.
- Must work to reduce the risk of post-ROSC hyperoxia. In general, dial down FiO2 to 60% as soon as tolerated by pt. (keep pt sat around 94%, no need to get to 100%, may be harmful
- Hold off on insulin in DKA until you check a K (and start fluid resuscitation)
- There is now evidence for push dose pressors (citations on Storify)
- Great review of IO’s (humeral allows for larger volumes, needs longer needle, etc)
- MOPETT Trial discussion
- How to make cornstarch based gel for US (thanks to APousson)
- Review of mechanical ventilation settings
- Benign coughs 2/2 URI’s may last around 18 days, back pain can linger 3 months…Must align patient expectations.
- The huge of amount of $$$ journals make off of pharmaceutical industry requests for reprints.
- Lack of evidence for Tamiflu
- All sorts of SAH stuff…
- And so much more…
A full transcript of yesterday’s tweets is available via Symplur at: http://bit.ly/19PkpJf Bodymender has also done it again. See his high-yield pearls at: http://storify.com/Bodymender_n_ED/acep13-day-3 One of the most important quotes:
Hoffman: “I do believe public health is part of our job, and advocacy part of our job” #acep13 — Policy Prescriptions (@PolicyRx) October 17, 2013
And, finally, an evidentiary moment :
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