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Author: Peter Malamet OMS- IVPhiladelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. Recently, I heard a quote that has summarized a large part of the emergency medicine practice I have experienced thus far. My attending said, “In a few years, ultrasound will be the new stethoscope.” What he was […]

Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2012 Original Author: Casey Grover, MD Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Rachel Engle, DO Communications Committee Chair We all learned in medical school that increased intracranial pressure is a contraindication to the use of ketamine… Where does this come from? The notion that ketamine increases intracranial pressure (ICP) comes from […]