The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 16-20, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: Due to a multitude of factors, the tick population is increasing leading to a congruent increase in tick borne disea…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 9-13, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: There are an increasing number of water bead related injuries in children, with the majority occurring in children le…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Sept 2-6, 2024. JournalFeed wants your feedback!! Tap here for a brief survey!! (<2 minutes) These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: In a retrospective study of 142 patients…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of August 26-30, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: A new PECARN clinical decision rule for cervical spine imaging in children after blunt trauma identifies children …

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Aug 19-23, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: Using the aortic dissection detection (ADD) risk score in addition to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and D-dimer…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Aug 12-16, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: This was a large RCT of critically ill adults with suspected infection who were randomized to receive either conti…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of August 5-9, 2024. Monday Spoon Feed: For acute ischemic stroke patients with recent DOAC ingestion who (1) had their DOAC level measured, (2) had DOAC reversal with idarucizumab, or (3) inadvertently received thrombolytics with DOAC subsequently discovered, there was not evidence of increased significant intr…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 29 – August 2, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: This retrospective study found increased use of unfractionated heparin (UFH) relative to low-molecular wei…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 22-26, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: The first direct comparison of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment-Alcohol Revised (CIWA-Ar) scale to a s…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 15-19, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: In a cohort of septic children, delays in antibiotic administration 330 minutes or longer from arrival to the emerg…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 8-12, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: GRACE-4 is packed with practice-changing recommendations for patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), alcoho…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 1-5th , 2024. Monday Spoon Feed: The only strong recommendation for corticosteroid use was in patients needing to be hospitalized with severe community acquired pneumonia. The panel recommended against high-dose/short duration corticosteroids in patients with septic shock. Tuesday Spoon Feed: In pediatri…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of July 24-29, 2024. Tuesday Spoon Feed: In a cohort of febrile infants, the performance of WBC, ANC, and CRP decreased in patients with less than 2 hours of fever; PCT remained similar. Thursday Spoon Feed: Ketamine has been shown to be efficacious in managing acute pain conditions in the emergency department (…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 17-21, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: This bias-adjusted meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCT) finds a one-month mortality benefit in trau…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 10-14, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This was a validation study for the recently published American College of Cardiology (ACC) Expert Consensus Decisio…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of June 3-7, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In this RCT, successful intubation on the first attempt in critically ill neonates was much higher in patients when vi…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 27-31, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: A retrospective study of 60 patients who received a fixed-dose ketamine of 250 mg by EMS observed that 6 were intubat…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 20-24, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This review article illustrates the evidence-based “no-zone” approach in managing penetrating neck injuries, with a r…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 13-17, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: Serious bacterial infections were exceedingly rare in this study of recently immunized infants 6-12 weeks presenti…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 6-10, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: Utilizing oxygen, rather than room air, for patients with intermediate-risk acute PE may be helpful even if patients …

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 29 - May 3, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: The HOT-COVID RCT found that hypoxemic COVID-19 patients in the ICU benefitted from a lower oxygenation target…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 22-26, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In a controlled hypoxemia study, pulse oximetry was falsely elevated in subjects with darker skin pigmentation and …

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 15-19, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: In subgroup analysis, there may be more successful ROSC in patients with upper extremity IO access compared to l…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 8-12, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: This external validation compared the 2023 Duke-International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Diag…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 1-5, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This single centre RCT investigated the link between IV cannula diameter and how painful it will be to insert. 18G c…

The JournalFeed podcast: These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: Using online telemedicine platforms, the authors found that it was appallingly easy to rapidly obtain inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for symp…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 18-22, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This Bayesian network meta-analysis of RCTs indirectly compares hydrocortisone + fludrocortisone to hydrocortisone…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 11-15, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: This updated meta-analysis re-demonstrated a benefit for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) in re…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of March 4-8, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: A meta-analysis of 15 randomized trials found that ketamine had a quicker analgesic effect than morphine, but morphine…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 26 – March 1, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This systematic review and meta-analysis concluded, with moderate certainty evidence, that oseltamivir has litt…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 19-24, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This single-center prospective study found that in 2,275 ECGs with a computerized interpretation of “normal” and “othe…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 12-16, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), patients presenting with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF), receivin…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Feb 5-9th, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: A prospective study by the PERT Consortium found an in-hospital mortality rate of 20% in patients with high-risk PE. …

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 29 – Feb 2, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: In patients hospitalized with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), beta-lactam (BL) only antibiotic reg…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 22-27, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: Chair placement near the bedside is a simple intervention that increased the likelihood of physician sitting during pa…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 15-19, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This expert opinion piece recommends consideration of nonoperative antibiotic treatment for select cases of uncomplica…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 8-12, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This expert panel from Canada has compiled a list of what they deem to be the most influential POCUS papers with regard…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 1-5, 2024. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday The best articles of 2023!! Friday Spoon Feed: A prospective, observational study demonstrated that giving sodium bicarbonate to pat…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of dec 25-29, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: Treatment of COVID-19 with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (N-R) was associated with virologic rebound (VR) in a prospective o…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 18-22, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: For the majority of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients undergoing standard (30:2 compressions:breaths) car…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 11-15, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This secondary analysis of the STOP CP cohort study found that, in isolation, using a 0/2 hour hs-cTnT rule-out proto…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Dec 4 - 8, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: This single center RCT found no difference in maximum Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score between critica…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 27th – Dec 1st, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: This RCT found no differences between high dose (16 mg) and low dose (4 mg) IV dexamethasone in patients who…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 20-24, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Thursday Spoon Feed: In a randomized control trial of 367 discharged infants with bronchiolitis, enhanced home nasal suctioning with a me…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 13-17, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: There is a nonlinear inverse dose-response trend between daily step count and all-cause death and cardiovascular dise…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Nov 6-10, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Wednesday Spoon Feed: Contact precaution (CP) for patients with MRSA infection or colonization is listed as an "essential practice" for al…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 30 Nov 3, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: After a non-diagnostic screening ultrasound for appendicitis, a rapid-MRI has high clinical accuracy in establishi…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 23-27, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday Spoon Feed: Emergency physician (EP) advancing age was associated with higher 7-day patient mortality. This is a wake-up call to k…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 18-20, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: Opioids, other than codeine, were found to be more effective when compared to non-opioids for treatment of acute musc…

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Oct 9-13, 2023. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Tuesday Spoon Feed: Children who viewed a 1-minute firearm safety video* exhibited safer behaviors around inert firearms staged in a playr…