Evidence Based Medicine Archives

In my mind, the use of NG tubes for bowel obstruction is an anachronism. I grew up hearing […]

NG tubes for small bowel obstruction: More pain than evidence

If I wasn’t an emergency doctor, there is no doubt that I would be in palliative care. Therefore, […]

Doctors prescribe a lot of antibiotics for viral illness. We shouldn’t do that. Antibiotics don’t work for viral […]

A key scientific lesson that I have discussed numerous times on this blog is that the interpretation of […]

Despite ‘therapeutic’ hypothermia’s widespread use, the evidence for the practice has always been weak. I went through that […]

I know many people are fed up with the debate about thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke. (To be […]

Took a quick break from paternity leave to have a chat with my good friend Casey Parker, which […]

Although I am taking a break from posting as part of my paternity leave, there were a number […]

Last week we covered TXA for epistaxis. The NoPAC study kept with the recent tradition in TXA papers […]