How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

How Search Skills Helped an Anesthesiologist Save a Patient’s Limb

In this guest post, we share a powerful real-life story from Dr. Jitendra Bapat, an anesthesiologist. Dr Bapat had used the PubMed search skills he learned from QMed to find a crucial answer to treat his patient. He describes this as an invaluable experience. Incidentally this also led to his resident presenting this case study at a conference, and winning a prize I am Dr. Jitu Bapat, an anesthesiologist, and I would like to share how QMed’s training directly helped me in patient care. During an emergency duty, I received a call from the recovery unit about a patient who…
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Challenges in Patient Care – which information resource helps?

I love reading blog posts written by Dr SP Kalantri - Prof of Medicine in MGIMS, Sevagram. One very fascinating post was about a young girl who was brought in late night to the hospital - as he describes - "motionless and speechless" His post describes how the residents tried everything they could and then it was a lecturer who used her intuitive skills to think about a possible snake bite (krait) and to treat the patient successfully! Dr Kalantri concludes his post by saying - "We cannot rely solely on Western textbooks to effectively care for acutely ill people…
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Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Conducting systematic reviews can be a daunting task, especially when faced with thousands of citations. Abstrackr, developed by Brown University's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, offers a free, open-source solution to simplify this process. Designed to semi-automate the citation screening phase, Abstrackr leverages machine learning to predict the relevance of studies based on titles and abstracts, significantly reducing the manual workload. Key Features of Abstrackr AI-Powered Recommendations: Utilize machine learning algorithms to identify and prioritize relevant citations, allowing researchers to focus on the most pertinent studies. Collaborative Screening: Invite team members to participate in the screening process, facilitating efficient…
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