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Research , Rapid Research Review

Rapid Research Review: Power

10/2/2016 EM Resident

Rapid Research Review: Power Power Recall that Type I error is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis (H0) based on our sample even though H0 is true in the population. Alternative

EMPower

Michael J. Caudell, MD, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM

10/2/2016 EM Resident

Michael J. Caudell, MD, FACEP, FAWM, DiMM Medical school & residency: Medical College of Georgia Current position: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University: Professor of Emergency Medicine; M

Clinical , Osteopathic

OMM in the Emergency Department

10/2/2016 Scott Bland, MSIII , Robert C. Gesumaria, DO , Joshua Kim, MD

OMM in the Emergency Department Any Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) is familiar with the following question: “Hey Doc, what does that DO mean after your name?” While a detailed response regardin

Visual Diagnosis , Orthopedics

Diagnose this Condition

10/2/2016 Maryam Arshad, MD

Diagnose this Condition The Patient A 62-year-old male presents to the ER complaining of right knee pain. He was changing a light bulb when he lost his balance and fell from a 6-foot height, landing

Pediatric EM

Evidence-Based Updates

10/2/2016 Ravi Chekka, MD , Dhimitri Nikolla, DO

Evidence-Based Updates Case 1 A 6-year-old female presents with 3 days of fever, nausea, and vomiting from a presumed viral gastroenteritis. On examination she is febrile to 39 degrees Celsius and he

Critical Care

Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis

10/2/2016 John Ramos, MMS, PA-C

Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis At a rural acute stroke-ready hospital in the year 2030, you are using a tele-stroke tablet to evaluate a 62-year-old male en route by mobile computed tomog

Editorial , Burnout , Personal

A Personal Story of Burnout

10/2/2016 Leann Mainis, MD

A Personal Story of Burnout Up until this past week, I thought I had a good handle on burnout. I thought I had figured it out. At some point during the past year, during a string of overnight shifts

ECG Challenge , Cardiology , Clinical

ECG Challenge

10/2/2016 Zachary S. Wilson, MD

ECG Challenge Case. A 59-year-old male smoker with a history of hypertension, familial hyperlipidemia and insulin dependent diabetes presents with 2 hours of substernal chest pressure radiating to hi

Cardiology

STEMI or no STEMI? A Challenging Diagnosis

10/2/2016 Ryan Joseph, DO, DTM&H

STEMI or no STEMI? A Challenging Diagnosis A 26-year-old anxious, diaphoretic male presents with crushing mid-sternal chest pain that awakened him from sleep. Past medical history is unremarkable asi

Toxicology

The Danger of Weight Loss Supplements