Tuesday Night Journal Club 8/14
As part of Ted’s education specialty track, we’ll be holding optional Tuesday Night Journal Clubs throughout the year (independent of our monthly conference journal clubs) to have a group of residents and faculty discuss a topic in the EM literature at a faculty member’s home over dinner and drinks. The first of these is Tuesday, 8/14 at 8PM at Matt Simons’s place in DUMBO.
Articles (password required)
Appetizer:
JAMA Rational Clinical Exam Series: Does This Patient Have Appendicitis? JAMA. 1996 Nov 20;276(19):1589-94. PMID: 8918857 (direct link)
The Main Course: What kind of contrast should I be giving patients going to CT scan with suspected appendicitis?
Article #1: Advantages of focused helical computed tomographic scanning with rectal contrast only vs triple contrast in the diagnosis of clinically uncertain acute appendicitis: a prospective randomized study. Arch Surg. 2004 May;139(5):495-9; discussion 499-500. PMID: 15136349 (direct link)
Article #2: A systematic review of whether oral contrast is necessary for the computed tomography diagnosis of appendicitis in adults. Am J Surg. 2005 Sep;190(3):474-8. PMID: 16105539 (direct link)
Dessert:
The use of the clinical scoring system by Alvarado in the decision to perform computed tomography for acute appendicitis in the ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2007 Jun;25(5):489-93. PMID: 17543650 (direct link)
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