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…