title: Global Emergency Medicine Journal Club: A Social Media Discussion About the Outpatient Management of Patients With Spontaneous Pneumothorax by Using Pigtail Catheters.
abstract: Annals of Emergency Medicine collaborated with an educational Web site, Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) to host a public discussion featuring the 2014 Annals article on the outpatient management of patients with a spontaneous pneumothorax by using pigtail catheters. The objective was to curate a 14-day (November 10 to 23, 2014) worldwide academic dialogue among clinicians about the article. Four online facilitators hosted the multimodal discussion on the ALiEM Web site, Twitter, and Google Hangout. Comments across the social media platforms were curated for this report, as framed by 4 preselected questions. Engagement was tracked through Web analytic tools. Blog comments, tweets, and video expert commentary involving the featured article are summarized and reported. The dialogue resulted in 1,023 page views from 347 cities in 49 countries on the ALiEM Web site, 279,027 Twitter impressions, and 88 views of the video interview with experts. This Global Emergency Medicine Journal Club created a virtual community of practice from around the world and identified common themes around the management of spontaneous pneumothorax, which included substantial practice variation in regard to inpatient versus outpatient management, location of chest tube, the use of aspiration, and chest radiography after placement.
authors.affiliation: Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: ntrueger@gmail.com.
authors.forename: N Seth
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Trueger
authors.affiliation: Queen's University School of Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.affiliation: New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobner
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and the MedEdLIFE Research Collaborative, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000628:therapy*; D061108:Social Media