Our residents and faculty meet on a monthly basis to discuss journal articles pertinent to the practice of emergency medicine.
As part of the Digital Education Blog, we will have regular resident article reviews to keep us all up to date on the most recent literature in our specialty!
A Comparison of Rate Control and Rhythm Control in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation – The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-Up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) Investigators – published in th
Intro: This 2008 study was the second large validation study of the Pulmonary Embolism Rule Out Criteria (PERC) rule. The researchers aimed to test the hypothesis that follows: patients who presented
The Study This was a retrospective analysis using the population-based data of 6 US states from the State Emergency Department Databases and State Inpatient Databases from 2006 through 2012 to identif