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Will social media make or break medical conferences?
The conference ‘hashtag’ has become a regular addition to any advertising poster or programme. Social media technologies take many different forms including internet forums, social blogs, microblogs, wikis, podcasts and videos. Social media is cheap and accessible, and differentiated from ‘traditional’ media in quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence that enable anyone (even private individuals) to publish or access information often with minimal quality assurance.
Troponins Archives • St.Emlyn's
It’s great to be back podcasting again after what has been a busy few months, We’re sorry for the hiatus, but occasionally other stuff gets in the way! Here we review some of the amazing …
A Decade of Diagnostics in Emergency Care
When we saw in the last decade, I’d just finished my PhD looking to discover the ‘new troponin’. At the time, patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) were routinely admitted to hospital to undergo serial troponin testing with the second test being run at least 12 hours after peak symptoms. Troponin was a ‘late marker’ of myocardial injury, and in my PhD I’d been looking to discover an ‘early marker’ that could be used to ‘rule out’ the diagnosis with one test in the ED.
50 shades of black and white: the folly of dichotomy
In this quick post I’m hoping to get you thinking and asking questions about how we measure things in medicine. And I hope that, like me, it might change how you interpret information in your practice. Since writing this in draft and sending it round to the team for review, this brilliant post was published today at PulmCrit, which covers a lot of the same ground.
15 A clinical decision tool for prescribing anti-platelet medication for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (PAM)
Background The benefit of antiplatelet medication in confirmed acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is well established. In the Emergency Department (ED) diagnostic uncertainty may lead to over-treatment, with consequent risks (e.g., bleeding), or under-treatment, compromising clinical outcomes. Clinicians must subjectively balance the anticipated risks and benefits with their perceived probability of ACS in order to decide whether to prescribe these medications.
5 A study analysing the diagnostic performance of ECG interpretation for 30-day major cardiac events in the emergency department
Study objective This study evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of an Emergency Medicine (EM) clinician at identifying ischaemia on an ECG using 30-day major adverse cardiac events (MACE) as the primary outcome. Methods This is a secondary analysis of a prospective, multi-centre, observational cohort at 14 centres: the Bedside Evaluation of Sensitive Troponin study. All fourteen Emergency Departments were based in the United Kingdom.
3 Derivation and internal validation of a clinical decision rule to guide whole body computed tomography scanning in trauma
Background There are no widely accepted validated clinical decision rules for the use of WBCT in trauma. Given the potential risks and costs, there is a clear need for a clinical decision rule (CDR) to safely guide targeted use of WBCT. We aimed to derive a CDR to guide clinical decisions on WBCT utilisation by detecting patients at high and low risk of multi-region trauma.
Bitcoin has ‘hallmarks of a classic bubble’
In the latest note to investors, AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver warned against the “rollercoaster of investor emotion” that characterised the ballooning interest in the popular cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin’s price in US dollars has risen exponentially in value in recent times,” he wrote. In the last five years alone, the price of bitcoin had risen from US$12 to more than US$8,000.
NAB, ANZ enter EUs over ‘fundamental failings’
NAB and ANZ have entered into enforceable undertakings (EUs) with ASIC after the Federal Court accepted $50 million settlements with both banks earlier this month. Under the terms of the EUs, the banks will permit an independent expert to oversee a compliance program that will "prevent, detect and respond" to any future attempts to manipulate the BBSW.
BET 2: Poor evidence on whether teaching cognitive debiasing, or cognitive forcing strategies, lead to a reduction in errors attributable to cognition in emergency medicine students or doctors | Emergency Medicine Journal
AbstractA short review was carried out to see if teaching cognitive forcing strategies reduces cognitive error in the practice of emergency medicine. Two relevant papers were found using the described search strategy. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are tabulated.
Ethics - St.Emlyn's
One of the most inspiring talks at SMACC Dub was delivered by John Carlisle on the subject of fraud in medical publishing. It was inspiring for many reasons, the topic is of real interest to anyone who thinks that we… Read more
Will social media make or break medical conferences?
The conference ‘hashtag’ has become a regular addition to any advertising poster or programme. Social media technologies take many different forms including internet forums, social blogs, microblogs, wikis, podcasts and videos. Social media is cheap and accessible, and differentiated from ‘traditional’ media in quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence that enable anyone (even private individuals) to publish or access information often with minimal quality assurance.
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