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We’ll be having another journal club next week at conference on 9/19. The article that we’ll be discussing is:

Carstairs KL, et al. Pneumococcal bacteremia in febrile infants presenting to the emergency department before and after the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine. Ann Emerg Med. 2007 Jun;49(6):772-7. PMID: 17337092. (direct link - password required).

Please read the article prior to journal club to facilitate our discussion.

We’ll be holding the second Tuesday Night Journal Club of the year on Tuesday, 9/18 at 8PM at Matt Simons’s place in DUMBO.

Articles (password required)

Appetizer:
1. Allen TL, Mueller MT, Bonk RT, Harker CP, Duffy OH, Stevens MH. Computed tomographic scanning without oral contrast solution for blunt bowel and mesenteric injuries in abdominal trauma. J Trauma. 2004 Feb;56(2):314-22. PMID: 14960973 (direct link)

2. Poletti PA, Mirvis SE, Shanmuganathan K, Takada T, Killeen KL, Perlmutter D, Hahn J, Mermillod B. Blunt abdominal trauma patients: can organ injury be excluded without performing computed tomography? J Trauma. 2004 Nov;57(5):1072-81. PMID: 15580035 (direct link)

Main Course:
Salim A, Sangthong B, Martin M, Brown C, Plurad D, Demetriades D. Whole body imaging in blunt multisystem trauma patients without obvious signs of injury: results of a prospective study. Arch Surg. 2006 May;141(5):468-73; discussion 473-5. PMID: 16702518 (direct link)

Dessert:
1. Plurad D, Green D, Demetriades D, Rhee P. The increasing use of chest computed tomography for trauma: is it being overutilized? J Trauma. 2007 Mar;62(3):631-5. PMID: 17414339 (direct link)

2. Snyder GE. Whole-Body Imaging in Blunt Multisystem Trauma Patients Who Were Never Examined. Ann Emerg Med. 2007 Apr 27; [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 17467119 (direct link)