Wednesday, January 17, 2007

EM RSS feed/Podcast

So for those of you who can't stand those emails from listserves which clog your inbox, here is a solution... an rss feed for emergency medicine abstracts.... If you know what that is, cool, if not, basically it's like a podcast which you can customize to receive any abstract or news update on any topic.

I noticed that there were a lot of news updates on this blog and for those of you who are interested there is actually a way to scan quickly through the most recent abstracts in most every journal or news service which would interest an em practitioner.

I collected these at a site which you can just cut and paste into your browser...

http://www.bloglines.com/public/emjournalclub

If you look at the pediatric emergency care abstract list for example, you will see the first article is an article by Beth Israel Pediatric EM faculty Drs. Dreisinger, Zane and Etwaru...

This is a relatively painless way to keep up to date, and for those of you interested in journal clubs, this is a great way to get daily updates on specific topics. For example, you can create an abstract feed which will tell you what new articles have been published DAILY on the treatment of sepsis, airway management, etc.

I created an example for intubation...

A technical note, I created most of the journal feeds though pubmed's rss feed service, the links expire after 6 months of inactivity.