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Welcome to the AIR GI Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Digital Impact Factor [1], the ALiEM AIR Team is proud to present the highest quality online content related to related to GI emergencies in the Emergency Department. 11 blog posts met our standard of online excellence and were approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. More specifically, we identified 3 AIR and 8 Honorable Mentions. We recommend programs give 6 hours of III credit for this module.

AIR Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions

In an effort to truly emphasize the highest quality posts, we have 2 subsets of recommended resources. The AIR stamp of approval is awarded only to posts scoring above a strict scoring cut-off of ≥30 points (out of 35 total), based on our scoring instrument. The other subset is for “Honorable Mention” posts. These posts have been flagged by and agreed upon by AIR Board members as worthwhile, accurate, unbiased, and appropriately referenced despite an average score.

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Highlighted Quality Posts: GI 2024

Site Article Author Date Label
EMCrit Acute liver failure Dr. Josh Farkas March 20, 2023 AIR
EMCrit Spontaneous Bacterial peritonitis Dr. Josh Farkas April 17, 2023 AIR
EMCrit GI Bleeding Dr. Josh Farkas April 14, 2023 AIR
RebelEM SBO Dr. Anand Swaminathan January 25, 2023 HM
EM Ottawa Rethinking Acute Pancreatitis in the ED Dr. Kevin Guo May 11, 2023 HM
EMCrit Hepatic Encephalopathy in chronic liver disease Dr. Josh Farkas April 3, 2023 HM
EMCrit Hepatorenal syndrome causing AKI Dr. Josh Farkas April 3, 2023 HM
EM Docs LBO: ED Presentation, evaluation, management Dr. Christopher Whiting July 17, 2023 HM
EM Docs Guideline Update: Acute Lower GI Bleeding Dr. Brit Long November 20, 2023 HM
EM Docs ED evaluation of Cholestatic labs Dr. Amelia Campbell March 4, 2024 HM
PEM Morsels Acute esophageal variceal bleeding in children Dr. Sean Fox June 9, 2023 HM

(AIR = Approved Instructional Resource; HM = Honorable Mention)

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Reference

    1. Lin M, Phipps M, Chan TM, et al. Digital Impact Factor: A Quality Index for Educational Blogs and Podcasts in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. Ann Emerg Med. 2023;82(1):55-65. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.02.011, PMID 36967275

 

 

Chris Belcher, MD

Chris Belcher, MD

Editor, ALiEM AIR Series
Assistant Professor and Assistant Program Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Chris Belcher, MD

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