Posts Tagged research

Academic Library Proxy Bookmarklet

Posted by Graham Walker, MD in Informatics, Information Technology, Tricks of the Trade on March 2nd, 2010

This post is probably geared mostly toward residents and academics who have access to a university library for their researchin’ and journal readin’ (and especially nerdy residents and academics). I’ve made a little tool to hopefully help a few people find accessing journal articles from home a little easier. It’s called a bookmarklet.

What does it do? Well, if your university or hospital library has a proxy server (now we’re getting reallly nerdy), you can use it to try to auto-access journal articles on the web, without the hassle of going to your library’s website, logging in, finding the journal you want, then the article you want, then opening the PDF. It’s probably easier explained in the accompanying video, below.

Visit this page to get the bookmarklet.

code, javascript, journals, research, technology

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Annals Posts December Podcast

Posted by David H. Newman, MD in Annals of Emergency Medicine on December 28th, 2009

This month’s Annals of Emergency Medicine audio summary includes:

The prevalence of prolonged QTc in the ED
Risk levels for major adverse events after syncope in the elderly
80-lead EKG: how much does it add, and what is it adding?
Admission v. discharge imbalances and crowding in the ED
What patient groups are disproportionately filling our ED’s as volumes increase?

And much, much more. Download the final audio summary of the decade today.

Annals of Emergency Medicine, clinical, research

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Bicep Curls for Bad Veins

Posted by Graham Walker, MD in Uncategorized on August 24th, 2009

Yeah. My arm.

I hereby propose a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial to try to improve cross-sectional diameter of peripheral veins (surrogate outcome) and ease of experienced ED nurse in IV cannulation (patient important outcome) in patients who are tough sticks. Bicep curls vs. cardio vs. no bicep curls.

Sure, most people don’t plan their emergencies, or plan their next visit to the ED, but we certainly have a cohort of frequent fliers who need blood work and admission who are either sicklers and/or former/active IVDU, and/or renal patients and/or chronically ill/admitted to the hospital. We (and they) all know they’re going to need an EJ, or arterial stick, or central line every time they come in; neither party is particularly happy about this. After seeing my own arms get all veiny from hitting the gym, I don’t think it’s too terrible an idea, and might make our patients’ and their doctors’ lives easier.

Any takers?

hiv, iv access, renal, research, sickler

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