Mnemonics for difficult airway predictors
Can you list the difficult airway predictors? Do you know the mnemonics: MOANS, LEMON, RODS, and SHORT?
Creating a personal learning environment
What is digital curation?
It is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.1 Once you have curated the digital content you might want to share with others. There are different ways of sharing this content:
- Sending out the link
- Retweeting on Twitter
- “Like” on Facebook
- “1+” on Google+
- Many others
Hot off the press: Academic EM journal abstracts in Spanish
La revista Academic Emergency Medicine ha creado una nueva función en su página web en la cual todos los resúmenes de los articulos seran traducidos al espanol. Felicidades a AEM por ser la primera revista americana en emergenciologia y unas de las primeras en medicina general por tomar en cuenta a la población de idioma español.
Diagnostic tests: Asking the right questions
You have picked up the next chart and have drawn your differential diagnosis based on the patient’s demographic, chief complaint, and vital signs.
Do you know your resuscitation room?
When I was in medical school doing my critical care elective in EM, I remember seeing the interns preparing tubes and IVs before their shifts started. Since then it was instilled in me that coming early to the shift was essential to make sure that at least your resuscitation room was adequately set up for any major emergency coming through. With the help of a few friends, I made up a list of the equipment that should be present and working appropriately in your resuscitation room.
The 3-minute EM student presentation
One of the most helpful articles I’ve encountered on teaching oral clinical presentations in the ED is a paper from Academic EM in 2008. It summarizes how to teach the “3-minute EM student presentation.”