First EDition: News for and about the practice of Emergency Medicine
Three simple questions can screen for suicide risk in ED patients;
J-Tip syringe cuts venipuncture pain in young kids;
More screening needed to detect injury, violence risk;
Emergency physicians may be overprescribing PPIs;
AEDs, not screening, most effective to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes;
“There is certainly ongoing debate, and there are no really good randomized, controlled trials comparing screening to no screening, and I don’t think anyone is either brave enough or has pockets deep enough, because it would be a huge trial because the event rate is so low,” Dr Prior said at the meeting, which was sponsored by the World Heart Federation.
Dr Prior said screening was a fairly blunt tool, whereas the data suggested that AEDs were effective.
Dr Estes disclosed consultancies with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and St. Jude Medical.
