Emergency Medicine News

OHCA Due to Opioid-Stimulant Overdose Lethal, on the Rise Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) secondary to combined opioid and stimulant use is increasing and is associated with lower survival compared with other drug-specific OHCA profiles.
Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2023
Climate Change: Are Hospitals Ready to Face Cataclysms? Univadis Italy recently spoke to a Belgian intensive care physician who, as a member of the Shifters health professionals committee, is working on decarbonizing the economy.
Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2023
Anticoagulants Safe With Enzyme-Inducing Meds for Epilepsy Co-prescription of enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications is not associated with alteration in direct-acting oral anticoagulant efficacy or safety.
Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2023
Sickle Cell Gene Therapy 'Truly Transformative' Patients who received lovo-cel had durable remissions and reductions in vaso-occlusive events, pain crises, and hospitalizations in the longest running gene therapy trial for sickle cell disease.
Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2023
In Real World, Patients With Myeloma Have Worse Outcomes A new analysis found that patients with multiple myeloma receiving standard therapies have much worse outcomes compared with those treated in clinical trials.
Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2023
Alert FDA Class I Recall for Getinge Cardiohelp Emergency Drive The drive may become stuck or hard to turn, raising the possibility that the patient may not receive adequate hemodynamic support or gas exchange.
Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2023
The Wild World of Wilderness Medicine Dangling from cliffs, braving whitewater rapids, remote night surgery — it's business as usual for wilderness physicians who practice medicine stripped to its essence.
Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2023
When to Skip Regional Nodal Radiation in Breast Cancer When neoadjuvant chemotherapy turns positive lymph nodes negative, 5-year survival outcomes are the same whether patients have regional nodal irradiation or not.
Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2023
Alert FDA OKs Iptacopan to Treat Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria This marks the first oral monotherapy approved for the rare blood disorder.
Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2023
How’s the Food? Rate Your Hospital Cafeteria Historically, hospital cafeterias have not been celebrated for the quality of their cuisine, typically feeding their staff from the same kitchen that prepared patient meals. How would you rate your hospital's cafeteria?
Medscape Reader Polls, December 05, 2023
MDMA Therapy for Loneliness? Researchers Say It Could Work Studies show the drug can make people more social and less defensive, effects that some say could be harnessed to treat loneliness in therapy.
Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2023
Rapid Access Clinics Help People With Opioid Use Disorder The rapid clinic model of care reduced overall risk for hospitalization and death and may lead to better wait times and continuity of care.
Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2023
Sleep Disorders Linked to Increased Mortality in Epilepsy Sleep disorders in people with epilepsy are linked to a significantly increased risk for sudden unexplained death in epilepsy and all-cause mortality, new research shows.
Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2023
More Preterm Babies Survived After Delayed Cord Clamping Deferring umbilical cord clamping reduced deaths before discharge by around 30%.
Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2023
How Will Germany Respond to the Global Nursing Shortage? Hospital officials propose a system in which greater education and qualifications lead to more autonomy, increased responsibility, and greater salary.
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2023
Asundexian Phase 3 AF Study Halted for Lack of Efficacy The phase 3 OCEANIC-AF trial of the factor XI inhibitor asundexian (Bayer) has been stopped early owing to inferior efficacy vs apixaban in preventing stroke and systemic embolism in patients with AF.
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2023
Use the Stool! Fecal Transplants Help Kids With C Diff The American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed fecal transplants to eliminate a particular infection in children and called for more research about other uses.
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2023
Rite Aid Sues US Justice Dept to Stop Opioid Lawsuit Rite Aid sued the US Department of Justice, seeking to block a lawsuit alleging that they ignored red flags and illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for addictive opioid medication.
Reuters Health Information, November 16, 2023
Before Signing an Offer Letter: Read This You just received an offer letter, but should you sign it right away? How legally binding is it? Is it the same as a contract? Experts weigh in.
Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2023
Algorithm Cuts Time to Incision in Urgent Cesarean Deliveries No specific recommended decision-to-incision time exists for cases of unscheduled, nonemergent cesarean deliveries, although a target of 30 minutes is recommended for emergent deliveries.
MDedge News, November 17, 2023
New Consensus Guide on Rare Drug Hypersensitivity Reaction Experts provided parameters to help clinicians, but they acknowledged the limited evidence base for drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms.
Medscape Medical News, November 17, 2023
AHA 2023 AI-ECG Gets STEMI Patients to Cath Lab Sooner An artificial intelligence electrocardiography app cut catheterization lab activation times by 9 minutes in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients.
MDedge News, November 16, 2023
ACR 2023 Study Takes Fine-Grained Look at MACE Risk With GCs in RA 'Up to half of RA patients in the United States use long-term glucocorticoids despite previous work suggesting they increase MACE in a dose-dependent way.'
MDedge News, November 16, 2023
Biden, Xi to Talk Fentanyl in City Gripped by Opioid Crisis In the first nine months of this year, 619 people died of an opioid overdose in San Francisco, most related to the synthetic opioids, compared with 647 such deaths in the whole of 2022.
Reuters Health Information, November 15, 2023
A Mid-Marathon Cardiac Arrest, an MD's Crisis of Confidence A doctor reeling from a career-changing crisis finds himself staring down at a cardiac arrest victim during the New York City Marathon — and does the only thing he knows how to do.
Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2023
T2D: Real Benefits of New Oral Antidiabetic Drugs Could combining SGLT2 inhibitors with GLP-1R agonists have a cardioprotective and nephroprotective effect for patients with type 2 diabetes?
Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2023
ACAAI 2023 Flaxseed Allergy Possible Through Ingestion or Contact Cases described include a toddler who ate flaxseed mixed with oatmeal and an adult artist whose paints contained the ingredient.
Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2023
ACR 2023 TNF Blockers Not Associated With Poorer Pregnancy Outcomes Patients with rheumatic disease who continued TNF blockers during their pregnancy did not have an increased risk of worse fetal and maternal outcomes and had a lower risk of severe infection.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
AHA 2023 Impressive Bleeding Profile With Factor XI Inhibitor in AF Further details from the phase 2b AZALEA trial of the factor XI inhibitor abelacimab show significant reductions in major and clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding vs rivaroxaban for patients with AF.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
Mobile Stroke Units Tied to Better Outcomes vs EMS Mobile stroke units equipped with clot busting medications, CT machines, and video connections to a physician are linked to better patient outcomes, including stroke avoidance, vs traditional EMS.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
Should Physicians Go to Work When Sick? Although most doctors believe it's best to stay home if they're ill, today's healthcare system makes the answer much more complicated.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
AHA 2023 Apixaban Cuts Stroke but Ups Bleeding in Subclinical AF Further analyses from the ARTESIA study and the previous NOAH-AFNET 6 trial are needed to try to identify groups where the benefit may outweigh the risk, researchers say.
Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2023
What Happens if You Get Both COVID and Flu (or RSV) at Once? Despite our prevention efforts, some unlucky few may contract not just one of these viruses, but two at once or in close succession during the winter season.
WebMD Health News, November 11, 2023
AMA Calls for Wider Access to Naloxone The AMA is calling for increased access to overdose-reversing naloxone, buprenorphine, fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction methods.
Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2023
Unclaimed Dead: Rising Number Used in Medical Schools The number of unclaimed dead bodies accepted by medical schools in Texas rose by almost seven times between 2017 and 2021.
Medscape Medical News, August 31, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Gives Paralyzed Woman Voice Back A brain-computer interface translates neural signals of a woman who is unable to speak, not only into text on a screen but into audible speech using a digital avatar.
Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
Expert Calls for Sparing Use of Oxygen for Dyspnea in the ED A clinician argues that oxygen therapy is given too readily even though data indicate that excess oxygen is harmful.
Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
As MOC Debate Heats Up, Cardiology Societies Weigh In The MOC process is once again under attack by cardiologists and other specialty physicians. A petition aiming to end the requirements has garnered more than 17,000 and counting signatures.
Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
New Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache The guidelines provide a framework for individual clinicians to assess risk, confirm diagnosis and adopt a systematic approach to management.
Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
Two Thirds Say They or Family Affected by Substance Use The majority of respondents to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll said addiction had affected family relationships, their mental health, or the mental well-being of a family member.
Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2023

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