NEJM - Emergency Medicine

An intravenous dexamethasone dose of 16 mg did not offer greater clinical benefit than 4 mg in reducing post-discharge headaches following acute migraine treatment.

Among several scores tested in a large cohort, none performed well enough.

Among adults undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, no mortality difference was found across body-mass index categories.

A new meta-analysis supports antibiotics in this gray area.

Subsequent emergency department use was lower following a virtual visit with a patient's own family physician compared with a visit with another physician.

It's probably 9 g/dL in patients with MI and anemia.

1-mg “neffy” is now approved for children who weigh 15 to 30 kg.

This strategy reduced the severity of gastroenteritis and was safe overall, with diarrhea being the main side effect.

Risk for death was 40% higher in older adults who stayed in the ED overnight before admission to the hospital.

The data are relatively convincing for hypoxemic respiratory failure but are less so for COPD exacerbations with hypercarbia.