Papers of February 2021

The paper from Nutbeam et al comparing demographics and injury outcome data for patients involved in MVC collisions demonstrated a 90 day mortality rate of 9% in those who were trapped versus 5% in those who were not trapped?

Rastagio looked at patients who were found to have a hypertensive reading on their 2-14 day admission to hospital and found a decreased rate of subsequent AKI and MI in those who were treated acutely for their hypertension on the index admission?

The HINTS exam is a test to help discriminate between a central and peripheral cause of vertigo and was shown to be 100% sensitive and 96% specific in the original derivation study in 2009?

The HINTS exam is considered to be central (positive) when one or more components of the exam were consistent with a central cause for dizziness;

Head impulse test: corrective saccade absent, nystagmus: direction-changing, test of skew: vertical deviation followed by correction on cover-uncover test
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