Emergency Medicine News

• Surgeon's License Suspension Spotlights Hazards, Ethics of Live-Streaming Surgeries Surgeon's License Suspended After Live-Streamed Cosmetic Procedure
  Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2023
• Best Diets in 2023: Mediterranean Diet Wins Again It's officially 2023, and if history repeats, millions of Americans are likely vowing that this year will be one when they drop those unwanted pounds for good.
  WebMD Health News, January 03, 2023
• STEMI Times-to-Treatment Usually Miss Established Goals Survival and treatment times are closely linked in STEMI patients, but many still don't get to PCI within the long-established 90- and 120-minute goals; and the pandemic didn't help.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2022
• Postconcussion Symptoms Tied to High Risk of Depression Patients with symptoms such as headache and cognitive difficulties that continue for months or years after a concussion may be at significantly increased risk of subsequent depression.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2022
• AHA Names Top CVD Advances for 2022 Advances in maternal and child health, prevention of post-stroke disability and finding new uses for old medicines are among the top developments in 2022, according to the AHA's annual list.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2022
• FDA Serotonin Syndrome Warning Unnecessary? Although the antibiotic linezolid carries a warning against its use by patients taking antidepressants, owing to risk for serotonin syndrome, new research suggests that that concern may be unnecessary.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2022
• Strong Link Between Muscle Strength, Mobility, and Brain Health Higher handgrip strength and better mobility correlate with larger brain volumes in cognitively impaired adults with biomarker evidence of dementia.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2022
• Watch Out: Minefields in Your Hospital Contract Make sure any contract you sign is fair and reasonable and contains no nasty surprises. Legal experts highlight some of the most common pitfalls and how to address them.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2022
• IV Ketamine Effective for Resistant Depression in Older Adults? Almost half of older adults who received ketamine infusions for treatment-resistant depression achieved a response, and 25% achieved remission, in a new pilot study.
  Medscape Medical News, December 28, 2022
• Two Exercise Interventions May Ease Acute, Subacute Spine Pain Two conservative approaches, one involving physical therapy and one involving postural therapy, are effective for acute and subacute spine pain, results from the SPINE CARE trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, December 28, 2022
• Medicare Pay Cuts Partly Averted in Massive Budget Bill US lawmakers partly averted Medicare pay cuts in a massive year-end spending bill that also sets new health policies including FDA's accelerated drug approvals and substance abuse treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, December 27, 2022
• Popular Scrubs Maker Defeats Competitor in Court Fast-growing medical scrubs company Figs just beat back a lawsuit from a competing medical apparel maker and now faces new investor lawsuits. But that's just background noise for fans of the scrubs.
  Medscape Medical News, December 27, 2022
• CDC Reports Uptick in Invasive Strep A Infections These infections are rare but can be deadly, and they can affect adults as well as children.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2022
• DOJ Win Draws Attention to Battles Over Nurse Staffing Firms An antitrust win involving a nurse staffing firm's bid to suppress wages signals the federal justice system's interest in addressing tactics used to suppress competition, perhaps leading to future crackdowns.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2022
• Babies Inadvertently Exposed to Opioids + Tranquilizer: Report A rise in the use of illegal opioids tainted with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, is reaching drug users' children, according to a new case report from Delaware.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2022
• FDA Approves Roche's COVID-19 Antibody Roche Holding AG said on Wednesday the US Food and Drug Administration had approved its monoclonal antibody for treating COVID-19 in hospitalized adult patients.
  Reuters Health Information, December 21, 2022
• ACEP 2022 What Lies Ahead for Prehospital Critical Care Resuscitation An intensivist shared a (not so distant) futurist view of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life support.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2022
• A Doctor Saves a Drowning Family in a Dangerous River A cardiologist finds a father and three sons struggling in deep water near his home ― one boy already floating face down. The only choice is to go in after them.
  Medscape Medical News, December 21, 2022
• Intentional Deaths Continue to Rise Among US Children The number of killings is climbing for US youth, particularly Black adolescents, after a period of decline, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2022
• Inside a Children's Hospital's Surge of Respiratory Illness Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have families crowding into EDs as health systems juggle staff shortages. In Michigan, only 10 of 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU.
  Kaiser Health News, December 20, 2022