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Here are seven must-reads curated from the globally crowd-sourced emergency medicine online education community called Free Open Access Meducation (FOAMed):
1. How to treat severe asthmatics with a focus on post-intubation/ventilator care.
2. What is "standard of care" and how does it impede the continuous march of science? Key quote: "Standard of care adopts a position of unsupported truth-value without the reason necessary for its nuanced interpretation."
3. Six takeaways about how to treat septic shock aggressively by the lead author of the NEJM ProCESS protocols study. (And here's our take with CME and video interviews.)
4. Why it's time to reconsider epinephrine in out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest.
5. Check the ECG systematically, or risk missing something, says Amal Mattu, MD in his video on short QTc.
6. Avoid these azithromycin combos for influenza until further notice now that Ryan Radecki, MD has smacked the study down as "tragic science."
7. From damage control resuscitation to cricothyrotomy best practices, the Social Media in Critical Care (smaccGold) Top 10 list.
Thanks to Michelle Lin, MD, Salim Rezaie, MD, and guest editor Anand Swaminathan, MD.
Looking for more? Here's last week's Game-Changers edition.
What's FOAMed? Read a FOAMed primer assembled by the people who coined the term. Follow the action in real time with #FOAMed, or check out a handy calendar of EM conferences.
MOST READ IN Emergency Medicine