Emergency Medicine News

• England's Junior Doctors Ramp Up Strikes in Threat to Emergency Care Junior doctors in England ramped up their industrial action on Wednesday, beginning the first walk-out of their biggest strike yet, which hospitals warn could threaten...
  Reuters Health Information, December 20, 2023
• Systemic Bias in AI Models May Undermine Diagnostic Accuracy However, standard AI model predictions enhanced diagnostic accuracy by 4.4%.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2023
• More Evidence Suggests That 'Long Flu' Is a Thing You may have never heard of it, but you may have had it. More evidence points to "long flu" being a real phenomenon.
  WebMD Health News, December 20, 2023
• FDA Approves First Test to Identify Opioid Use Addiction Risk The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday it has approved the first test to assess if there is a risk of opioid use addiction in certain...
  Reuters Health Information, December 19, 2023
• ED Visits for Diabetes on the Rise in the US Emergency department visits by adults with diabetes rose by more than 25% since 2012, with the highest rates among Blacks and those aged over 65 years.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2023
• Cluster of Eye Syphilis Cases Prompts CDC Concern A rare presentation of syphilis has experts questioning whether the bacterium has mutated.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• One Fifth of Americans Report Use of Hemp-Derived Products Adults who used delta-8 THC were more likely to live in states where cannabis use is illegal.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Infections Down in Acute Care Hospitals Prevention strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections are having an effect, according to a new report on national- and state-level incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• Novo Owner Commits $265 Million Of Wegovy Windfall to Respiratory Diseases The Novo Nordisk Foundation, which controls drug maker Novo Nordisk, said on Monday it would commit up to 1.8 billion Danish crowns ($265 million) to setting up an...
  Reuters Health Information, December 18, 2023
• Compounders: Don't Listen to Bad Press on GLP-1s The compounding industry is trying to quell misconceptions about its GLP-1 products, which prescribers can order while branded versions of the drugs are in short supply.
  Medscape Medical News, December 15, 2023
• Quebec Healthcare Workers Strike Again for Better Pay After yearlong negotiations at the bargaining table, nurses are calling for salary increases and better work–life balance.
  Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2023
• Sharp Rise in Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Mortality The number of TBI-related deaths in the US increased 22% between 2010 and 2020, with the largest rise in individuals aged 75 and older, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2023
• Aspirin Tied to Slower Growth of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Aspirin use may reduce growth and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysms in certain patients, with a favorable safety profile, observational data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2023
• EU Publishes Its First List Of More Than 300 Critical Medicines, Vaccines The European Commission published its first list of critical medicines, as part of a wider overhaul of laws governing the 136 billion euro ($148 billion) pharmaceuticals...
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2023
• US Consumer Group Seeks Stronger Warnings on Botox, Similar Treatments Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday filed a petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking to require makers of Botox and several similar...
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2023
• Rapid Rise in Premature Hospital Discharges for OUD One in six inpatients with opioid use disorder leave the hospital before completing treatment, possibly due to untreated withdrawal symptoms, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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