52 Articles 2014

Here's my attempt at 52 articles in 52 weeks.  Our residency will be reading all of these over the next year.  Disclaimer: subject to change.

Airway	Preoxygenation and prevention of desaturation during emergency airway management.	Weingart SD	2012	Ann Emerg Med	PubMed
Airway	The importance of first pass success when performing orotracheal intubation in the emergency department.	Sakles JC	2013	Acad Emerg Med	PubMed
Airway	Does end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring detect respiratory events prior to current sedation monitoring practices?	Burton JH	2006	Acad Emerg Med	PubMed
Cardiology	2-Hour accelerated diagnostic protocol to assess patients with chest pain symptoms using contemporary troponins as the only biomarker: the ADAPT trial.	Than M	2012	J Am Coll Cardiol	PubMed
Cardiology	Protective effects of aspirin against acute myocardial infarction and death in men with unstable angina. Results of a Veterans Administration Cooperative Study.	Lewis HD	1983	NEJM	PubMed
Cardiology	Evolving considerations in the management of patients with left bundle branch block and suspected myocardial infarction.	Neeland IJ	2012	J Am Coll Cardiol	PubMed	PDF
Cardiology	Value and limitations of chest pain history in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes.	Swap CJ	2005	JAMA	PubMed	PDF
Cardiology	Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in two hospital emergency departments in an Asian population.	Tan C	2013	Acad Emerg Med	PubMed
Cardiology	Early intravenous then oral metoprolol in 45,852 patients with acute myocardial infarction: randomised placebo-controlled trial.	Chen ZM	2005	Lancet	PubMed
Cardiology	Is emergency department cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation safe and effective?	Cohn BG	2013	J Emerg Med	PubMed
Emergency Medical Services	Association of prehospital advanced airway management with neurologic outcome and survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.	Hasegawa K	2013	JAMA	PubMed
Gastrointestinal	Transfusion strategies for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.	Villanueva C	2013	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Gastrointestinal	Nasogastric aspiration and lavage in emergency department patients with hematochezia or melena without hematemesis.	Palamidessi N	2010	Acad Emerg Med	PubMed
Infectious Disease	The risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection with femoral venous catheters as compared to subclavian and internal jugular venous catheters: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis.	Marik PE	2012	Crit Care Med	PubMed
Infectious Disease	Antibiotic prophylaxis for mammalian bites.	Medeiros I	2001	Cochrane Database Syst Rev	PubMed
Infectious Disease	Evidence-based guidelines for evaluation and antimicrobial therapy for common emergency department infections.	Nassisi D	2010	Emerg Med Pract	PubMed
Nephrology	Ion-exchange resins for the treatment of hyperkalemia: are they safe and effective?	Sterns RH	2010	J Am Soc Nephrol	PubMed	PDF
Neurology	Effect of thrombolysis with alteplase within 6 h of acute ischaemic stroke on long-term outcomes (the third International Stroke Trial [IST-3]): 18-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.	IST-3 Collaborative Group	2013	Lancet Neurol	PubMed	PDF
Neurology	Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group.		1995	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Neurology	Sensitivity of computed tomography performed within six hours of onset of headache for diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage: prospective cohort study.	Perry JJ	2011	BMJ	PubMed	PDF
Neurology	Rapid blood-pressure lowering in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage.	Anderson CS	2013	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Neurology	Validation and refinement of scores to predict very early stroke risk after transient ischaemic attack.	Johnston SC	2007	Lancet	PubMed
Orthopedics	Evidence-based diagnostics: adult septic arthritis.	Carpenter CR	2011	Acad Emerg Med	PubMed	PDF
Pediatrics	Single-dose oral dexamethasone in the emergency management of children with exacerbations of mild to moderate asthma.	Altamimi S	2006	Pediatr Emerg Care	PubMed
Pediatrics	Torsion of the testicle: it is time to stop tossing the dice.	Mellick LB	2012	Pediatr Emerg Care	PubMed
Pediatrics	Identification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort study.	Kuppermann N	2009	Lancet	PubMed
Pulmonology	Prospective multicenter evaluation of the pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria.	Kline JA	2008	J Thromb Haemost	PubMed	PDF
Pulmonology	Moderate pulmonary embolism treated with thrombolysis (from the "MOPETT" Trial).	Sharifi M	2013	Am J Cardiol	PubMed
Resuscitation	A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of transfusion requirements in critical care. Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.	Hebert PC	1999	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Resuscitation	A comparison of albumin and saline for fluid resuscitation in the intensive care unit.	Finfer S	2004	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Resuscitation	Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network.	The ARDS Network	2000	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Resuscitation	Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve the Neurologic Outcome after Cardiac Arrest	Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group.	2002	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Resuscitation	Targeted temperature management at 33°C versus 36°C after cardiac arrest.	Nielsen N	2013	NEJM	PubMed
Resuscitation	Does central venous pressure predict fluid responsiveness? A systematic review of the literature and the tale of seven mares.	Marik PE	2008	Chest	PubMed
Resuscitation	Association between a chloride-liberal vs chloride-restrictive intravenous fluid administration strategy and kidney injury in critically ill adults.	Yunos NM	2012	JAMA	PubMed	PDF
Resuscitation	Agreement between arterial and central venous values for pH, bicarbonate, base excess, and lactate.	Middleton P	2006	Emerg Med J	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	A Randomized Trial of Protocol-Based Care for Early Septic Shock.	The ProCESS Investigators	2014	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	Comparison of dopamine and norepinephrine in the treatment of shock.	De Backer D	2010	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock.	Rivers M	2001	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock, 2012.	Dellinger RP	2013	Intensive Care Med	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	Lactate clearance vs central venous oxygen saturation as goals of early sepsis therapy: a randomized clinical trial.	Jones AE	2010	JAMA	PubMed	PDF
Sepsis	Hydrocortisone therapy for patients with septic shock.	Sprung CL	2008	NEJM	PubMed	PDF
Toxicology	Efficacy of oral N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of acetaminophen overdose. Analysis of the national multicenter study (1976 to 1985)	Smilkstein MJ	1988	NEJM	PubMed
Toxicology	Management of alcohol withdrawal delirium. An evidence-based practice guideline.	Mayo-Smith MF	2004	Arch Intern Med	PubMed	PDF
Toxicology	Value of the QRS duration versus the serum drug level in predicting seizures and ventricular arrhythmias after an acute overdose of tricyclic antidepressants.	Boehnert MT	1985	NEJM	PubMed
Toxicology	Octreotide for the treatment of sulfonylurea poisoning.	Glatstein M	2012	Clin Toxicol	PubMed	PDF
Trauma	CRASH-2 (Clinical Randomisation of an Antifibrinolytic in Significant Haemorrhage) intracranial bleeding study: the effect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury--a nested randomised, placebo-controlled trial.	Perel P	2012	Health Technol Assess	PubMed	PDF
Trauma	Selective cervical spine radiography in blunt trauma: methodology of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS).	Hoffman JR	1998	Ann Emerg Med	PubMed
Trauma	The Canadian CT Head Rule for patients with minor head injury.	Stiell IG	2001	Lancet	PubMed	PDF
Ultrasound	Use of the 'sliding lung sign' in emergency bedside ultrasound.	Razzaq QM	2008	Eur J Emerg Med	PubMed
Ultrasound	The RUSH exam: Rapid Ultrasound in SHock in the evaluation of the critically lll.	Perera P	2010	Emerg Med Clin North Am	PubMed
Urology	Relationship of spontaneous passage of ureteral calculi to stone size and location as revealed by unenhanced helical CT.	Coll DM	2002	AJR Am J Roentgenol	PubMed	PDF