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Must-Read Acute Care Articles From 2024 Dr Amal Mattu discusses his three favorite acute care articles of the past year. What are your top picks?
Commentary, February 04, 2025
The Health and Environmental Toll of the LA Wildfires The LA wildfires have left lasting scars, from toxic air and soil to a mental health crisis. Drs Glatter and Papadakos explore the health impacts on residents and first responders.
Viewpoint, January 17, 2025
Compounded Semaglutide: How to Better Ensure Its Safety Semaglutide shortages are driving patients to compounding pharmacies. We need to help them verify whether this is a safe choice.
Commentary, June 24, 2024
Drug Shortages Are Killing Our Patients Is there a way to mitigate the problem?
Viewpoint, June 11, 2024
Healthcare's Hope in Artificial Intelligence AI is coming for healthcare, and that's a good thing.
Viewpoint, May 24, 2024
An Escalation of Dengue in Brazil A perfect storm of epidemiologic factors is exacerbating the spread of dengue in Brazil and throughout the world.
Viewpoint, April 10, 2024
Must-Read Acute Care Articles From 2023 Dr Amal Mattu discusses his three favorite acute care articles of the past year. What are your top picks?
Experts And Viewpoints, February 06, 2024
Why Everyone Needs Their Own Emergency Medicine Doctor Innovations in personalized emergency care are critical in our healthcare environment.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 31, 2024
Sodium Bicarbonate Use in the Emergency Department Two recent reviews may change how you use bicarb in the ED.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 20, 2023
Wide Complex Tachycardia: SVT or VT? Treat all WCTs as ventricular tachycardia and you'll save lives.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 17, 2023
Must-Read Acute Care Medicine Articles From 2022 Dr Amal Mattu discusses his three favorite acute care articles of the past year. What are your top picks?
Experts And Viewpoints, February 10, 2023
Optimal Pad Position in Transcutaneous Pacing Pad placement significantly improves the odds of success.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 11, 2023
STEMI Equivalents You've Got to Know The ACC formally recognizes decades of evidence supporting immediate reperfusion therapy for patients with MI and these ECG changes.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 14, 2022
Post-Arrest Angiography for Non-STE Patients? According to Dr Amal Mattu, post–cardiac arrest patients who lack ST-segment elevation are unlikely to benefit from emergent coronary angiography.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 04, 2022
The Must-Read Acute Care Medicine Articles From 2021 Dr Amal Mattu discusses his top picks for the most important acute care literature of the past year. What are your picks?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 28, 2022
Diagnosing Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Paced Patient Dr Amal Mattu discusses a recent study on using the modified Sgarbossa criteria for diagnosing acute coronary occlusion in the presence of a ventricular paced rhythm.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 18, 2021
A Cardiac 'Electrical Storm' Is Coming! Dr Mattu describes and offers advice on evaluating and caring for patients presenting with a cardiac condition known as the 'electrical storm.'
Experts And Viewpoints, July 26, 2021
Amal Mattu's Top Non-COVID Studies in 2020 Amal Mattu's picks include tips on treating gonococcal infection, the use of thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke, and treating low-risk pulmonary embolism.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 01, 2021
COVID-19 Has Turned Cardiac Resuscitation Upside Down The presence of COVID-19 should make us think twice about CPR practices and safety, cautions Dr Amal Mattu.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 27, 2021
Aortic Dissection: Still the Great Masquerader Dr Amal Mattu takes a look at acute aortic dissection and explains why William Osler cautioned humility when it comes to this tricky disorder.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 09, 2020

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