Abstract
The Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) Series and Approved Instructional Resources - Professional (AIR-Pro) Series were created in 2014 and 2015, respectively, in response to the growing need to curate online educational content as well as create a nationally available curriculum that meets individualized interactive instruction criteria for emergency medicine (EM) trainees. These two online series identify high-quality educational blog and podcast content using an expert-based approach. We summarize the accredited posts on gastrointestinal emergencies that met our a priori determined quality criteria per evaluation by eight experienced faculty educators in EM.
Highlights
BackgroundEmergency medicine (EM) has been at the forefront in the adoption of social media platforms as a means to disseminate knowledge with a rapid rise of educational content available through blogs and podcasts [1]
In 2012, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases published guidelines recommending antibiotics and IV albumin (1.5 mg/kg) within six hours of diagnosis for patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP), as defined by an ascitic fluid polymorphonuclear leukocyte count greater than 250 cells/mm3 with clinical suspicion for SBP, as well as any of the following: serum creatinine > 1 mg/dl, blood urea nitrogen (BUN) > 30 mg/dl, or total bilirubin > 4 mg/dl
The author of this post agrees that the evidence supports timely administration of albumin to emergency department (ED) patients diagnosed with SBP and with either elevation in creatinine, BUN, or total bilirubin [23]
Summary
Emergency medicine (EM) has been at the forefront in the adoption of social media platforms as a means to disseminate knowledge with a rapid rise of educational content available through blogs and podcasts [1]. The ALiEM Blog and Podcast Watch series is authored by members of the AIR and AIR-Pro Series’ editorial boards to create written summaries of these selected posts [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]. This installment from the series summarizes the highest-scoring social media educational resources on gastrointestinal emergencies. Resources with a mean score of 27-29 and deemed accurate and educationally valuable by the reviewers are given the Honorable Mention (HM) label
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