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About us Layer Health is a stealth AI startup recently spun out of MIT, revolutionizing clinical documentation by leveraging the power of large language models. We are building an AI layer that will radically speed up and improve the quality of extracting and synthesizing information from...

A brief update on emergency informatics fellowships. Clinical Informatics was just approved by ABMS as a board-certified sub-specialty. http://www.amia.org/news-and-publications/press-release/ci-is-subspecialty There are several informatics fellowships out there, several run out of the...

Jeff698: I believe the iPhone SDK is objective-C, which is a C derivative like most things. It supports OOP, and platform is built on the MVC design pattern. alphaholic - to be honest, I think your time can be better spent. There are plenty of books out there with this type of content for...

hmmm. what an interesting topic, definitely something I haven't thought about before. I can see how it might be useful if you gave the patient a card at the beginning of their encounter, and that way they could identify you as their doctor. When they needed you, they could then know who to...

Here's a link to the article for people that haven't seen it: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119825928/PDFSTART Michael Blaivas MD 1 , *John Christian Fox MD 2 1 Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore University ospital, Manhasset, NY 2 Department of...

High dose nitroglycerin boluses for CHF low dose steroids in septic shock Early goal directed therapy in sepsis Etomidate and adrenal supression in sepsis Therapeutic hypothermia s/p cardiac arrest Compression only CPR in witnessed cardiac arrest Minocycline in acute CVA

check your benefits package for legal counsel. I know mine includes it, although I don't know if your particular scenario would be included, but then again, can't hurt to ask.

all the pre-interview events I went to were paid for. I've never heard of anyone actually having to pay for themselves. Although, some programs did not pay for alcohol.

who's on tomorrow night? I know i am.

I believe all ED residencies require BLS/ACLS, and probably PALS as well before the official start date, usually July 1st. Most programs will offer these courses at specific times for all their housestaff for free, usually during orientation or a little bit before. I have heard of people who...

alright, i get first cracks at this case. History/Physical: - what brings him into the ED after 5 days of sx? - cough, rhinorrhea, sore throat, SOB, CP? - photophobia/phonophobia? - arthritis, radiculopathy? - was the patient completely undressed for the derm exam? any recent rashes? - Can you...

great topic. Let's say your first round of opiods fail to produce adequate pain control. How long are you waiting to make that decision, and what's you're redosing strategy?

take a look at emramatch.org some of the info might be outdated, but it gives a breakdown of hours and number of shifts in the ED, as well as on off rotations. I'm looking forward to 18x12's myself with one less shift per year. -steve.

ECG: NSR @66. nl axis. prolonged QT. peak T's. No ST changes. No hypertrophy/atrial enlargement. QT = 0.52 RR = 0.9 QTC = 0.55 non-contrast CT: calcified basal ganglia. flattened ventricles. effaced sulci. Prolonged QT on ECG with a h/o syncopal episodes/muscle spasms is most...

interesting case. I guess I'll add my bit. In addition to what has already been said, I wonder about these parents that forego all medical care and vaccinations. Withholding vaccinations seems to be a fad these days, but it's my impression that these parents still send these kids for a well...