🚨MDCalc Wars: HEART Score vs. EDACS
Both safely ID low-risk ACS pts when paired w/ hs-trop.
HEART = simple, EDACS = broader.
Which do you use?
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🚨@IncrEMentuMconf Speaker Spotlight: Drs. Sara Crager & Ryan Ernst Highlight:
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🌳The Arboretum Teaching Collective: loom.ly/vI00tvw
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🏅Check out what Performance Coaching in Medicine looks like!
🎧Listen to our latest REBEL MIND Episode w/@ArenaLabs: loom.ly/XzrpnT8
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🚨 New Post Alert!
Syncope is common in the ED—but which decision rule do you trust?
⚡ San Francisco Syncope Rule = fast but fallible
🧩 Canadian Syncope Risk Score = comprehensive but complex
🩺 Neither replaces clinical judgment
👉 Read here: wp.me/pdrP8b-5pF
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Quick rule for EtOH withdrawal scoring:
🗣️ Talking + reliable → CIWA-Ar
🏥 ICU / delirious / intubated → mMINDS
mMINDS helps when CIWA-Ar isn’t feasible. Trend scores + watch mimics (pain, sepsis, hypoxia).
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🚨 REBEL EM Gear Available!
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🎙️ New Podcast!
💉 IO lines: Power & Pitfalls in the ED
⚡ Fast, reliable access in arrest & shock
🧭 Site matters: Sternum > Humerus > Tibia
⚠️ Labs unreliable, dislodgement common
👉 Listen now: wp.me/pdrP8b-5ph
cc: @srrezaie @emswami @mramzydo @Marco_Propersi
🚨🧪 The Ket-Mid RCT showed faster seizure cessation, ⬇️ intubations, and no added harm with ketamine + midazolam.
📉 But one trial at a single site isn't enough—yet
🔗 wp.me/pdrP8b-5qZ
By: Brendan Freeman DO & Katherine Zabinski MD
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🥇What does performance under pressure in medicine look like?
🏃🏽♂️➡️What if we had the same tools as professional sports teams and elite athletes?
🧠 We've partnered with Arena Labs for data driven insights!
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🚨 Not all tachypnea is respiratory failure—yet.
Short + shallow? Think neuromuscular, bronchospasm, or compliance issues
Normal Vt? Metabolic or systemic.
🎧 Full episode: [wp.me/pdrP8b-5ng]
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RENOVATE Trial: HFNC vs BPAP in ARF
📊 Did HFNC match BPAP in 5 respiratory failure subgroups?
✅ Non-inferior in 4/5
🧪 Bayesian dynamic borrowing = statistical edge
🚫 Futility in immunocompromised patients
Read more 👉 wp.me/pdrP8b-5sU
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🚨 REBEL EM Gear Available! 🚨
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🚑 Midline tenderness + one beer — CT or not?
You're in the ED. Which rule guides your call
🟦 NEXUS — simple, fast, validated
🇨🇦 CCR — more nuanced, validated
💬 Let’s hear your go-to and why.
🔗 loom.ly/_WUCTws
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🚨 MDCalc Wars 🛑
Are you using PERC and Wells correctly?
✅ Start with Wells to guide next steps
🚫 Don’t use PERC in moderate/high-risk
🧪 Use high-sensitivity D-dimer!
👉 Read now: wp.me/pdrP8b-5oN
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🤧 Should you prescribe Tamiflu for mild flu?
📉 Oseltamivir shortens symptoms by <24h
🤢 But side effects are common
🚫 No mortality/hospitalization benefit in healthy patients
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🫁 What’s Behind the Breath?
Shallow breaths? Think neuromuscular, bronchospasm, or poor compliance. Big breaths? Prob compensation
👁 Observe
✋ Palpate
👂 Listen
🧠 Synthesize
🔗 wp.me/pdrP8b-5ng
🎙️ Frank Lodeserto MD
@marco_propersi @mramzydo
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🥂New Year, New Partnerships!
🎉We've got something amazing coming & we're so excited to share it w/you! Stay tuned for a new way to elevate your performance at work, at home & everywhere in between!
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🚨 New #REBELCast Drop 🚨
REBEL Core Cast 148.0: Demystifying Non-Invasive Ventilation & HiFlow
By Drs. Frank Lodeserto & Eric Acker
6/ 🎯 Bottom Line:
NIV is a bridge—not the fix.
Stabilize the patient and treat the root cause.
Use the right tool for the right physiology.
7/ 🎙️ Episode by: Drs. Lodeserto & Acker
👥 Peer Reviewed: @Marco_Propersi @MRamzyDO
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