Emergency medicine blogs

2014-12-10T21:28:00Z

Danielcabrera: mayo edit

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==Background==
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This is a list of additional Emergency Medicine blogs. Please feel free to add yours.

==List==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ EM Blogs
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! scope="col" | '''Blog / Website'''
! scope="col" | '''Blog URL'''
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| A life at risk||http://www.alifeatrisk.com/
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| Acil TIP||http://www.xn--aciltp-t9a.com/
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| ACILCI||http://www.acilci.net/
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| ACMT||http://www.acmt.net/ACMTPodcasts.html
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| Adrenaline||http://soportevitalextremadura.blogspot.com
|-
| Adventure Medicine||http://www.adventuremedicine.net/
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| Adventures in Emergency Medicine||http://drsamko.blogspot.com/
|-
| Akutdoctorn||http://akutdoktorn.wordpress.com/
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| ALIEM||http://academiclifeinem.com/
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| Amal Mattu||http://ekgumem.tumblr.com/
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| Annals of Emergency Medicine||http://www.annemergmed.com/content/podcast
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| Asystole: The Most Stable Rhythm||http://asystoleisstable.blogspot.com/
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| Auckland HEMS||http://aucklandhems.com/
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| Blogborygmi||http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com/
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| Boring EM||http://boringem.com/
|-
| Broad Complex||http://broadcomplex.com.au/blog/
|-
| Broome Docs||http://broomedocs.com/
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| CCPEM||http://ccpem.com/
|-
| Champagne Tap||http://champagnetap.blogspot.com
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| Charlies ED||http://scghed.com/
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| Chile Emergency Medicine||http://mduchile.com/
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| Crashing Patient||http://crashingpatient.com/
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| Crit-IQ||http://www.crit-iq.com/blog
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| Critical Care Practitioner||http://www.jonathandownham.com/
|-
| DEMTed||http://demted.com/
|-
| DGINA Blog||http://dgina.de/blog/
|-
| Dr Cottles Desk||http://doccottlesdesk.blogspot.com.au/
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| Dr GDH||http://drgdh.wordpress.com/
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| Dr Smith's ECG Blog||http://hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com
|-
| Eastern Association||http://www.east.org/resources/traumacast
|-
| EBMgoneWILD||http://ebmgonewild.com/
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| ECG Experts Study Cards||http://ecg-experts.blogspot.co.uk/
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| ECG of the week||http://jhcedecg.blogspot.com
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| ED Exam||http://www.edexam.com.au/
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| ED informatics||http://ed-informatics.org/
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| EDTCC||http://www.edtcc.com/
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| Edwin Leap||http://edwinleap.com/blog/
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| EM Armamentarium||http://emarmamentarium.blogspot.com.au/
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| EM Basic||http://embasic.org/
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| EM Broad Spectrum||http://www.embroadspectrum.com/
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| EM Docs||http://emdocs.net/
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| EM Dose||http://emdose.org/
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| EM Dutch||http://emdutch.com/
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| EM Education||http://emeddoc.org/
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| EM Guidelines||https://sites.google.com/a/emguidelines.com/home/
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| EM IM Doc||http://emimdoc.org
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| EM in 5||http://em-in-5.blogspot.com/
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| EM Journey||http://emjourney.com/
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| EM Lit of note||http://www.emlitofnote.com/
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| EM Lyceum||http://emlyceum.com/
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| EM Nerd||http://emnerd.com
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| EM Pearls||http://www.ahcmedia.com/emreports/pearls.htm
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| EM Pills||http://empills.com/
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| EM REMS||http://emrems.com/
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| EM Rookies||http://www.emrookies.org/
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| EM Tutorials||http://emtutorials.com
|-
| EMBER||http://emberproject.org/
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| EMChatter||http://www.emchatter.com/
|-
| EMCrit Blog||http://emcrit.org/
|-
| Emergence Phenomena||http://singem.blogspot.sg
|-
| Emergency Board Review||http://www.emergencyboardreview.com/
|-
| Emergency Education||http://emergencyeducation.net/emergency-medicine.html
|-
| Emergency Medicine Cases||http://www.emergencymedicinecases.com/
|-
| Emergency Medicine Ireland||http://emergencymedicineireland.com/
|-
| Emergency Medicine Journal||http://blogs.bmj.com/emj/
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| Emergency Medicine Journal||http://podcasts.bmj.com/emj/
|-
| Emergency Medicine PharmD||http://empharmd.blogspot.com.au/
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| Emergency Medicine updates||http://emupdates.com/
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| Emergency Physicians International||http://www.epijournal.com/articles
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| Emergency Room Nurse||http://emergency-room-nurse.blogspot.com.au/
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| Emergency Ultrasound Teaching||http://www.emergencyultrasoundteaching.com/
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| Emergency WebNotes||http://emergencywebnotes.blogspot.com.au/
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| EmergencyPedia||http://emergencypedia.com/
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| EMERGPA||http://www.emergpa.net/wp/blog
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| EMergucate||http://www.emergucate.com/
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| emerJencyWEBB||http://emerjencywebb.wordpress.com/
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| EMJ Club||http://emjclub.com
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| EMPEM||http://empem.org/
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| EMRad CR||http://emradcr.com/
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| EMRAP TV||http://www.emrap.tv/
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| EMS 12 lead||http://ems12lead.com/
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| EP Monthly||http://www.epmonthly.com/
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| ER Jedi||http://erjedi.com/
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| ER Mentor||http://ermentor.com/
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| ER Nurses Blog||http://ernursey.blogspot.com/
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| ER RN||http://errn.blogspot.com/
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| ERCAST||http://blog.ercast.org/
|-
| Especialidad en Medicina de Urgencias||http://especialidadenmedicinadeurgencias.blogspot.com/
|-
| Everyday Medicine||http://www.ryanastanton.com/em-for-physicians/
|-
| Expensive Care||http://expensivecare.com/
|-
| Flipped EM Classroom||https://flippedemclassroom.wordpress.com/
|-
| Foambase ||http://foambase.org
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| FOAM EM||http://foamem.com
|-
| FOAM Feeds||http://foamfeeds.blogspot.com/
|-
| Free Emergency Medicine Talks||http://freeemergencytalks.net/
|-
| Global Emergency Medicine||http://northwesternglobalem.wordpress.com/
|-
| Gmergency||http://gmergency.tumblr.com/
|-
| Google FOAM||http://googlefoam.com/
|-
| GruntDoc||http://gruntdoc.com/
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| Guitar Girl RN||http://guitargirlrn.blogspot.com/
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| Gustavo Flores||http://www.gustavoflores.net/wp/
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| Hamalrad||http://www.hamalrad.com/
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| HarrisCPD||http://HarrisCPD.com
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| Hippo EM Blog||http://blog.hippoem.com/
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| HNE ED||http://www.hneed.com/
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| House of God - Foreclosed||http://houseofgodforeclosed.wordpress.com/
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| HQMedEd||http://www.hqmeded.com/
|-
| iClickEM||http://www.iclickem.com/
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| ImpactEDnurse||http://www.impactednurse.com/
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| Improving Care in ED||http://improvingedcare.org/
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| Incision and Drainage||http://incisionanddrainage.blogspot.com
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| Injectable Orange||http://injectableorange.com/
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| Intensive Care Network||http://www.intensivecarenetwork.com/
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| iTeachEM||http://iteachem.net
|-
| Its a Zoo out there||http://spacefan.blogspot.com/
|-
| Ivor Kovic||http://ivor-kovic.com/blog/
|-
| Kardioblog||http://www.kardioblogie.blogspot.cz/
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| Keep Caring||http://keep-caring.com/
|-
| Keeweedoc||http://keeweedoc.com/
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| Kentucky EMIG||http://ukemig-quickhit.com/
|-
| KI Docs||http://kidocs.org
|-
| LITFL||http://lifeinthefastlane.com/
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| Little Medic||http://littlemedic.org/
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| M2E Too||http://journals.lww.com/em-news/blog/M2E/pages/default.aspx
|-
| Malato Critico||http://www.malatocritico.com/
|-
| Manu et Corde||http://manuetcorde.org/
|-
| Maryland CC Project||http://marylandccproject.org
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| Mayo EM Blog||http://emblog.mayo.edu/
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| MDaware||http://mdaware.org
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| MEDEST118||http://medest118.wordpress.com/
|-
| Medgadget: EM Archives||http://medgadget.com/emergency_medicine
|-
| Medicina Crítica Eficiente||http://med-critica.blogspot.com.au/
|-
| Medicina d'Emergenza||http://www.medicinadurgenza.org/
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| MediNuggets||http://www.medinuggets.com/
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| MedMasters||http://www.mededmasters.com/
|-
| MERITUS||http://meritus.kopernika.pl/
|-
| Movin' Meat||http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/
|-
| My Emergency Medicine||http://www.capriles-urgencias.com/
|-
| My Emergency Medicine Blog||http://myemergencymedicineblog.blogspot.com
|-
| Nephroblog||http://nephroblog.org/
|-
| neurocritical||www.neurocritical.de
|-
| OA Advances in Emergency Medicine||http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aem/
|-
| OA BMC Emergency Medicine||http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcemergmed/
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| OA EM Journal||http://www.dovepress.com/open-access-emergency-medicine-journal
|-
| OA Emergency Medicine International||http://www.hindawi.com/journals/emi/
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| OA International Journal of Emergency Medicine||http://link.springer.com/journal/12245
|-
| OHSU Toxicology||http://www.ohsu.edu/emergency/education/courses/media/podcast/
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| OzCriticalCare||http://ozcritcare.com/
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| Paediatric EM||http://paediatricem.blogspot.co.uk/
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| Paterson ER||http://patersoner.com
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| PedEM Morsels||http://pedemmorsels.com
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| PEM Blog||http://www.pemcincinnati.com/blog/
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| PEM ED||http://www.pemed.org/
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| PEM Literature||http://pemlit.org/
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| PHARM||http://prehospitalmed.com/
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| PICU Doctor||http://www.picudoctor.org/
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| Pora Na TeleSORa||http://poranatelesora.wordpress.com/
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| Practical Evidence||http://practicalevidence.org/
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| Priceless Electrical Activity||http://pricelesselectricalactivity.blogspot.com.au/
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| PulmCCM||http://pulmccm.org/
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| Quiz EM||http://quizem.org
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| Reanimación||http://www.reanimacion.net/
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| Rebel EM||http://rebelem.com
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| Receiving The place for EM||http://drhem.com/
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| REMI Journal of Intensive Care Medicine||http://www.medicina-intensiva.com/
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| Residing in the ER||http://residing.tumblr.com/
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| Resus ME||http://resus.me/
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| Resus Review||http://resusreview.com/
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| Reviews and Opinions||http://www.adanatriham.blogspot.com
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| RNSHICU||http://rnshicu.org/blog
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| Rogue Medic||http://roguemedic.com/
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| Rollcage Medic||http://rollcagemedic.yolasite.com/
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| Rural Docs||http://ruraldoctors.net/
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| Rural Flying Doc||http://www.ruralflyingdoc.com/
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| SCANCRIT||http://www.scancrit.com/
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| SCCM||http://www.sccm.org/
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| servicio deurgencia pac||http://serviciodeurgenciapac.blogspot.com
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| Shoulder Dislocation||http://shoulderdislocation.net
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| Sim and Choppers||http://andrewpetrosoniak.wordpress.com/
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| Simulation Training in EM||http://stem.org.au/
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| Sinai EM Media||http://media.sinaiem.org/
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| Sinai EM US||http://sinaiem.us/
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| SMACC||http://www.smacc.net.au/
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| Smart EM||http://smartem.org/
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| SoBro EM||http://sobroem.com/
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| SOCMOB||http://socmob.org
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| SonoSpot||http://www.sonospot.com/
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| St Emlyns Blog||http://stemlynsblog.org/
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| Stories from a Kiwi Paramedic||http://paramedicstory.blogspot.com
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| StorytellERdoc||http://storytellerdoc.blogspot.com/
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| StripTease||http://www.electricant.net/ekg/
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| Takeokun||http://takeokun.com/
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| Taming the SRU||http://tamingthesru.com/
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| TeachMD||http://teachmd.blogspot.com
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| The Blunt Dissection||http://thebluntdissection.com/
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| The Central Line||http://thecentralline.org/
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| The Chart Review||http://thechartreview.org
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| The EM Res Podcast||http://www.emrespodcast.tumblr.com/
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| The EMPA Blog||http://empablogsite.com
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| The Medial Approach||http://medialapproach.com/
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| The Nurse Path||http://thenursepath.com/
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| The PEMNetwork||http://www.pemfellows.com/blog/
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| The Poison Review||http://www.thepoisonreview.com/
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| The Short Coat||http://shortcoatsinem.blogspot.com
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| The Skeptics guide to EM||http://thesgem.com/
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| The Sono Cave||http://thesonocave.com
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| The Teaching Course||http://theteachingcourse.com/
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| Things PAC||http://atencioncontinuada.blogspot.com
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| thoracotomie||http://thoracotomie.com/
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| Those Emergency Blues||http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com/
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| tj dogma||http://tjdogma.com/
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| Tox Talk||http://toxtalk.org/
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| Trauma Professionals blog||http://regionstraumapro.com/
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| Ultrasound Podcast||http://www.ultrasoundpodcast.com/
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| UMEM Pearls||https://umem.org/educational_pearls/
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| UnderneathEM||http://underneathem.com/
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| Urgencias Bidasoa||http://urgenciasbidasoa.wordpress.com/
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| White Coat Call Room||http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/
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| WikEM||http://www.wikem.org/
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| WikEM Blog||http://blog.wikem.org/
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| Wikemerg||http://wikemerg.ca/
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| WikiTox||http://curriculum.toxicology.wikispaces.net/
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| WrightEM||http://wrightem.com/
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| xaqu1n||http://xaqu1n.wordpress.com/
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| EM Physician Backstage Pass||http://emphysician.blogspot.com.au/
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| Mr Hassles Long Underpants||http://www.docshazam.com/
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| Agraphia||http://www.agraphia.net/
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| Dr Couz||http://drcouz.blogspot.com/
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| Emergiblog||http://www.emergiblog.com/
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| Collective Contemplations||http://ccontemplations.blogspot.com.au/
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| ER Murse||http://ermurse.blogspot.com/
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| Glorfindel of Gondolin||http://www.cuivienen.org/gondolin/
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| Emergency Medicine Forum||http://emspecialists.com/wordpress/
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| Oz EMedicine blog||http://www.ozemedicine.com/blog/
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| Call Bells make me nervous||http://pakazoid.blogspot.com.au/
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| GCS 14||http://gcs14.blogspot.com
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| BodsBlog||http://bodsblog.wordpress.com/
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| Your ER Doc||http://www.yourerdoc.com/
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| DirtMed||http://dirtmed.com/
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| EmergSource||http://www.emergsource.com/
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| The Sharp End||http://thesharpend.org/
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| urgenciashusa||http://urgenciashusa.wordpress.com/
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| Better in EM||http://betterinem.blogspot.com/
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| Modern EM||http://modernem.blogspot.com
|}

==See Also==
*[[EM Resources (Main)]]
*[[GEMC:Free Open Access Meducation_(FOAM)]]

[[Category:Resources]]

Epiglottitis

2014-05-24T11:37:43Z

Danielcabrera: added NP scope

==Background==
*Otolaryngologic emergency
**Can lead to rapid onset of life-threatening airway obstruction
*Most cases are seen in adults (since advent of H. flu vaccine)
*Etiology
**Strep, staph, H. flu (unvaccinated)
**Caustic burns

==Clinical Features==
*Three D's:
**Drooling
**Dysphagia
**Distress
*Pain with gentle palpation of larynx and upper trachea
*Stridor
*Respiratory distress

==Diagnosis==
*Bedside nasopharyngoscopy for direct visualization
*Imaging only required if diagnosis uncertain
*Lateral neck x-ray
**Obliteration of vallecula
**Edema of prevertebral and retropharyngeal soft tissues
**"Thumb sign" (enlarged epiglottis)

==Treatment==
*Emergent ENT consult
*O2 (humidified)
*IVF (hydration minimizes crusting in the airway)
*Nebulized [[Epinephrine]] to reduce edema
===Antibiotics===
;Empiric coverage for Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus pyogenes, and Haemophilus influenzae
*[[Ceftriaxone]] 2gm IV is first line
**Consider [[Vancomycin]] in patients at risk for [[MRSA]]<ref>Young LS, Price CS. Complicated adult epiglottitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Am J Otolaryngol. Nov-Dec 2007;28(6):441-3.</ref>

===Steroids===
[[Methylprednisolone]] 125mg IV

===Airway Managment<ref>Katori H, Tsukuda M. Acute epiglottitis: analysis of factors associated with airway intervention. J Laryngol Otol. Dec 2005;119(12):967-72</ref>===
*First line therapy is fiberoptic [[Intubation]]
*Preparation should be made for simultaneous [[Cricothyrotomy|cricothyrotomy]] incase intubation fails

==Disposition==
*Admit with ENT notification

==Source==
*Guldfred LA, Lyhne D, Becker BC. Acute epiglottitis: epidemiology, clinical presentation, management and outcome. J Laryngol Otol. Aug 2008;122(8):818-23
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