I have ranted previously about my concern that sucrose, despite its widespread use in pediatrics, is not actually a pain medication. I repeated that rant this week as part of the SMACCmini pre-conference day. However, it is always frustrating when people point out problems without offering solutions. This blog post […]
Whenever you order a test, it is essential to know what you are going to do with the results. Tests, by themselves, cannot improve patient outcomes. Benefit can only occur if the test results in appropriate patients receiving a proven intervention.
There is no perfect study of stress testing. There are no RCTs of stress testing in emergency department patients, so we cannot say with certainty whether they help or hurt. The studies describing test characteristics are also imperfect. Partly, that is because people try to use stress tests to identify […]
In the first edition of the research roundup for 2019 we are going to cover pediatric head injury, oral antibiotics for complicated orthopedic infections, shaving eyebrows, bad science in the New England Journal of Medicine, a decision rule for opioid overdose, shark bites, heparin for ACS, cardiac monitoring in syncope, […]