Best Pearls and Biggest Trends of 2015

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)