Best Pearls and Biggest Trends of 2015
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In this special episode we review some of the top items of 2015*

David Newman:

• Opioids for back pain - falling out of favor.

• Risk stratifying (and testing) low risk chest pain.

Haney Mallemat:

• Peripheral vasopressors may be ready for prime time)

• FAST guided resuscitative thoracotomy) (No cardiac activity and no effusion? No thoracotomy).

• Movement towards less volume in sepsis (ex: in PROMISE trial) average patient got 6L over 72 h)

Michelle Lin

• Merging of FOAM with traditional journals 

• Merging of FOAM resources into conglomerates

• More medical education FOAM (ex: ICEnet, EMin5))

Rob Orman

• Same as Haney (peripheral vasopressors) + FAST in resuscitative thoracotomy))

• Sexual intercourse 3-4 times per week may aid in expulsion of distal kidney stones.

Thanks for listening!

Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer

*Chosen by people smarter than we are.

(nb: Lauren initially wrote "smarter than us," but I fixed it. You're welcome, universe. -JF)