Academic Life in EM

Dear emergency physicians: WE SEE YOU.

We're with you.
We're in this together.
Thank you for being you.

- 💌 from ALiEM

Send this to all the emergency physicians in your life. Video animation by soon-to-be EP Spencer Evans (@notfakespevans)

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📊 What should a pediatric ED aim for? Not the average, and not perfection.

PECARN set achievable benchmarks from top performers across 5.3 million visits, like steroids for asthma in 97.8%.

🩺 aliem.com/achievable-ben…

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@PECARNteam @jwoodsmd

🎓 New AIR Series: Ortho Spine 2026

Top posts: cord syndromes, epidural abscess, MAP targets & more

Series Editor: Kaitlin Bowers, DO
Sponsors: SAEM and CORD

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@emcrit @emdocsdotnet @stemlyns @TheSGEM @RCEMLearning

🫁 Two clinicians can listen to the same child's lungs and hear different things. A new PECARN study found that no individual exam finding met its reliability standard for pediatric pneumonia.

Paper: doi.org/10.1001/jamane…

Our analysis: aliem.com/pediatric-pneu…

🧊 Your heat stroke patient is TACO'd down to 102°F. How do you stop the cooling fast, before hypothermia?

Trick of the Trade by Abigail Riley and Dr. @leocho_ayylmao (@bumc_em)

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