Some good news for emergency departments. Our study shows safe use of high-sensitivity point-of-care troponin to reduce lengths of stay for patients being assessed for possible myocardial infarction. #EMSky#MedSky#CardioSkywww.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Relying upon LLMs to suggest courses of diagnostic evaluation might cost more than a physician – but these data overstate the claim.
It is, however, a legitimate outstanding question to address the safety/completeness inflection point.
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/can-llms-t...
Better informed patients, better consultations, better outcomes.
A good direction of travel, if neither earth-shaking nor ground-breaking.
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/adding-llm...
Relying upon LLMs to suggest courses of diagnostic evaluation might cost more than a physician – but these data overstate the claim.
It is, however, a legitimate outstanding question to address the safety/completeness inflection point.
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/can-llms-t...
Bubbly hyperbole is a lot more fun the dismal realities of revenue, EBITDA, and returning value to shareholders – but we ought not forget the bill will come due, and that might affect the tools in development and freely/easily accessible at present.
#medsky#MLskyjamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
🎙️ The September Annals of Emergency Medicine Podcast is here!
Join Drs. Rory Spiegel and Ryan Radecki as they discuss research in emergency medicine and share their perspectives on the latest literature.
🎧 Listen now: player.captivate.fm/episode/041b...
Pulling back the veil on Epic again – imagine needing to activate their sepsis alert tools to get Gold Stars or join the Honor Roll. 🤮
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/leave-the-...
A 5-year-old male presents to the emergency department with inability to move his arms/legs and difficulty breathing.
Family reports they found him ingesting these fireworks (see image).
What lab do you expect to be abnormal and why?
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Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value.
OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
Talking at #ACEP2026@acepnation.bsky.social this week about applying Space Engineering concepts to EM! Come hear a robust follow up to Dr. Menon's keynote! Wed afternoon!
So why do we do triage at most MCIs?
It isn't to save lives.
It isn't because your system is "overwhelmed."
So initial teaching/assumptions throws everything else off.
#ACEP26@www.evidencetriage.com
Come hear me speak at #ACEP26 on Tuesday morning.
It will be Dr. Ken Milne and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Shift.
Inspired by this book.
@acepnation.bsky.social#MedSky
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero.
Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero.
Zero.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Perhaps not "snake oil", but a combination of "anxiety oil" and "false reassurance oil", with a dollop of unnecessary invasive procedures.
#medskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/here-comes...
Fewer than three weeks to go until the Chicago Marathon – if the fight against ALS is personal for you, please consider donating to ALS United Chicago's research fund:
secure.alsunitedchicago.org/site/TR/Endu...
Mildly entertaining study re: AI CT queuing –
– if you're the clinician who frequently orders low-yield/low clinical likelihood scans, I wonder if you'd notice the increases in your ED LOS, whilst the most effective clinicians would have deceased ED LOS ....
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using.
When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
It's your chance to see the @annalsofem.bsky.social podcast team live! in person! And catch up on the last year of the top content from your @acepnation.bsky.social flagship journal.
See you in Chicago!
Sending low/intermediate-risk folks to CT coronary angiograms following an ED visit didn't do much for their CVD outcomes, but fewer people were dead within 3 years ... 🤔
#medskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/keep-ct-co...
These 0/1-hour troponin algorithms are probably safe, but can we please stop trying to conflate the "ACS" question answered by the test with "30 day outcomes"?
#medskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/are-tropon...
This is absolutely insane. Don't pay for-profit publishers APCs. Don't let your collaborators do it either. Post preprints of your work, post your work on pubmed central, but for fucks sake stop sending hard-earned grant dollars to these publishing conglomerates
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025).
We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322#ScholComm
“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
Which AI drafts require the most revision? Which take the most time in revision? And which occur with greatest frequency?
All these answers and more ...
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/which-ai-d...
A very interesting peek at a prospective evaluation of robust, integrated AI decision-support – and how the initial engagement rapidly evaporated from 70+% to lower than 25% within the first few weeks of deployment!
#medsky#MLskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/when-cutti...
In just under two months, I'll be running the Chicago Marathon for the ALS United charity!
There are many worthy charities, and if you have the capacity to give, let this serve as a nudge to do so – and consider the fight against ALS as an option:
secure.alsunitedchicago.org/site/TR/Endu...
Supposedly the new pulmonary embolism risk-stratification was dreamt up over drinks (née "expert consensus"), so, luckily, the categories probably do bin people into categories of increased risk.
More prospective validation necessary, of course.
#medskywww.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Patients presenting with syncope sometimes have serious short-term outcomes!
These data indicate selected patients might benefit from short-term observation to reduce missed opportunities for diagnosis and intervention, but that number remains small.
#medskywww.evidencetriage.com/p/the-benefi...