AI-powered emergency medicine resource. Ask anything, get cited answers from LITFL, EMCrit, emDocs, WikEM, ALiEM and more. Built by EM docs.foamcortex.comJoined January 2026
A score needs context. When a relevant calculator is available, FOAM Cortex can bring it into the answer workflow, with inputs, interpretation, limitations, and references. Try it: foamcortex.com
Your team is telling you what’s missing.
FOAM Cortex’s Knowledge Gaps helps you find unanswered institutional questions, add the guidance your team needs, and compare the answers before and after.
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Your team already has the protocol. Make it easier to find in the answer. FOAM Cortex can prioritize institutional content alongside cited FOAM sources. Explore the Institutions beta: foamcortex.com/institutions
A clinical answer is more useful when you can check its source. FOAM Cortex pairs structured EM answers with visible references and links to the original FOAM content. Ask your next question: foamcortex.com#FOAMed
Shift question: stable regular wide-complex tachycardia—cardioversion, procainamide/amiodarone, or avoid AV nodal blockers?
Open the response: FOAM Cortex turns the rhythm call into teachable ED decision support. foamcortex.com/share/fVg70gTv…
Shift question: severe agitation with unclear intoxication/medical cause—how do you calm safely without respiratory/QT harm?
Open the response: meds, monitoring, and resident teaching priorities. foamcortex.com/share/qEU9zEUO…
Shift question: septic shock after 30 mL/kg and still hypotensive—when do you start norepi, and what do you reassess?
Open the response: early pressors, perfusion, lactate, antibiotics, and source control. foamcortex.com/share/RF0MMuB2…
Shift question: 72-year-old syncope, normal ECG, negative first troponin—can he go home?
Open the response: FOAM Cortex frames high-risk features, SFSR/CSRS context, and how to teach the discharge call. foamcortex.com/share/NmPmwAeF…
Local antibiotic guidance should account for local resistance.
FOAM Cortex uses the selected institution + site to interpret a local antibiogram and return practical recommendations: options, dosing, cautions, adjustments, and sources.
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EHR downtime is rare enough that most teams are unfamiliar with the details—and high-stakes enough that guessing is a bad plan.
FOAM Cortex makes downtime easier to manage by turning local forms and policies into usable answers.
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EHR downtime is rare enough that most teams are unfamiliar with the details—and high-stakes enough that guessing is a bad plan.
FOAM Cortex makes downtime easier to manage by turning local forms and policies into usable answers.
foamcortex.com/institutions
Troponin, decoded.
hsTn algorithms can be maddening. 10 ng/L is low, but not automatically “negative.” Serial testing, delta, ECG, timing, clinical risk, and institutional pathways all matter.
FOAM Cortex turns the threshold maze into the next step.
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Shift question: Febrile infant UTI fork
42-day-old fever, UA positive, well appearing: LP, ceftriaxone, or discharge?
Open the response to see FOAM Cortex map the AAP-style pathway and follow-up traps:
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Shift question: Asthma vent trap
Intubated asthma with rising CO2: what vent settings avoid auto-PEEP?
Open the response to see a resus pathway for breath stacking, permissive hypercapnia, and sedation/paralysis:
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Question of the shift: Lateral canthotomy steps
Orbital compartment syndrome: how do I perform lateral canthotomy and cantholysis?
Open the response to see FOAM Cortex structure the procedure steps, pitfalls, and aftercare:
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Question of the shift: POCUS in crashing shock
Crashing undifferentiated shock: which POCUS findings change management now?
Open the response and see how it structures the next moves:
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Question of the shift: Toddler vomiting after fall
3-year-old minor head injury with vomiting, normal exam: CT or observe?
Open the response—FOAM Cortex preselects PECARN and prefills age ≥2 + vomiting before the answer.
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Institutional search should not treat every document equally.
A current local pathway should beat an old slide deck. A concise algorithm should beat a twenty-page policy.
FOAM Cortex routes the right content forward by recency, site specificity, and actionability.
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