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The emergency room should be good at diagnosing emergencies, but most ailments aren’t.

This wouldn't solve the problem of diagnostic standards. Let's say you are a pediatrician and want to predict which kids with bronchiolitis will develop respiratory failure and nee…

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Same. My use case is ultrasound segmentation. These models struggle, understandably so, with medical imaging.

What about a subreddit?

This tracks with my own bias as an ER doc. I do feel that the risk of c-spine injuries from mountain biking is understated. As they said in the article, you are especially vulnerab…

You can do CPR without a computer system, but changing systems in the middle of resuscitation where a delay of seconds can mean the difference between survival and death is absolut…

I sent them your contact info, pretty sure they will be asleep for the next few hours

The system crashed while my coworker was running a code (aka doing CPR) in the ER last night. Healthcare IT is so bad at baseline that we are somewhat prepared for an outage while …

I would use this at work in the hospital, especially ultrasound guided procedures.

CPR shouldn’t work on someone dead from a traumatic injury. For example chest compressions will only hurt someone dead from having their chest crushed against a steering wheel in a…

I’ve always wanted to have an MRI. I want to know how it feels to have all of my protons reoriented by a giant magnet. Would I be the same person after?

I use windows when I work in the emergency department. These ads drive me bonkers when I’m trying to use the software to take care of patients.

I presume this is intended for wounds in areas with poor circulation, like a diabetic foot or a walled off abscess. The bloodstream is damn good at delivering antibiotics and immun…

Received mine this week for a service address on the Navajo Nation. I imagine the wait is shorter for less populated rural areas, which should correlate with need. My old isp charg…

No seriously. The estimated prevalence of venous thrombosis in the United States is 1:1000. The reported numbers of VTE after the vaccine would be normal in the general population.…

Those numbers appear lower than the baseline prevalence of venous thrombosis in the general population [1]. Maybe the vaccine is protective? https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.htm…

It would be better if the author had vetted this with an epidemiologist or infectious disease specialist. I am an MD and I feel that this topic is outside my expertise and that I’m…

Neat suggestion. I too am seeing shades of brown for most queries. Maybe this would help.

The test in the article screens for colon cancer, which is one of many reasons to have a colonoscopy. It sounds like the GI doctors you consulted performed colonoscopies to assess …

Implantable defibrillators are designed to be stopped by a magnet. This is a critical safety mechanism to stop a defibrillator that continues to fire inappropriate shocks. Any emer…

Amazing! Thank you for digging! This is the most common question that I am asked at work.

Do you have a citation for this claim? I heard or read similar but then couldn’t find the source.

I’ve worked in four emergency departments in three states this year. All of them have been overwhelmed by patients with covid, and not patients with overdoses, suicides, or domesti…

The case fatality rate is around 1.8% in the USA [1]. Current population is 330 million. So if the entire population becomes infected that’s 5.9 million dead. The case fatality rat…