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Review
. 2021 Nov:49:200-205.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.05.061. Epub 2021 Jun 15.

Staying InformED: Top emergency Medicine pharmacotherapy articles of 2020

David E Zimmerman  1 , Preeyaporn Sarangarm  2 , Caitlin S Brown  3 , Brett Faine  4 , Tara Flack  5 , Brian W Gilbert  6 , Gavin T Howington  7 , Gregory Kelly  8 , Jessica Laub  9 , Blake A Porter  10 , Giles W Slocum  11 , Megan A Rech  12
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Staying InformED: Top emergency Medicine pharmacotherapy articles of 2020

David E Zimmerman et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Nov.

Abstract

The year 2020 was not easy for Emergency Medicine (EM) clinicians with the burden of tackling a pandemic. A large focus, rightfully so, was placed on the evolving diagnosis and management of patients with COVID-19 and, as such, the ability of clinicians to remain up to date on key EM pharmacotherapy literature may have been compromised. This article reviews the most important EM pharmacotherapy publications indexed in 2020. A modified Delphi approach was utilized for selected journals to identify the most impactful EM pharmacotherapy studies. A total of fifteen articles, eleven trials and four meta-analyses, were identified. This review provides a summary of each study, along with a commentary on the impact to the EM literature and EM clinician.

Keywords: Emergency medicine; Pharmacotherapy; Review.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. BWG, GTH, GWS reports receiving consulting fees from TerSera Therapeutics. GTH received consulting fees from Kedrion Biopharma, Inc. for participation in a human rabies immune globulin advisory board meeting and writing two manuscripts.

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