Thursday, July 30, 2009

Headache in young children in the emergency depart...[Pediatrics. 2009] - PubMed Result

Headache in young children in the emergency depart...[Pediatrics. 2009] - PubMed Result

This study, which ultimately had a relatively low number of children with CT scans for headache - found that only 1 had anything bad - and that kid had an abnormal neuro exam.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Validation and Refinement of the ABCD2 Score. A Population-Based Analysis -- Fothergill et al., Stroke

In this interesting article in stroke, the ABCD2 score did not work so well in Rochester, MN, back in the 1980s and early 1990s...So what does that mean now?

Validation and Refinement of the ABCD2 Score. A Population-Based Analysis -- Fothergill et al., 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.553446 -- Stroke

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Staying alive, staying alive...

How often do you change rescuers during CPR? This interesting study examined fatiguability and perhaps implies that the typical answer of ... whenever may not be good enough.