One of the talks I gave today at North York General’s Emergency Medicine Update was an “EBM Lightning […]
ebm reviews EM literature (critical appraisals)
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Another month, another collection of (hopefully) interesting medical publications. When trial results are too good to be true, […]
Trauma patients aren’t bleeding salty water, so why would you give them intravenous salty water? It doesn’t make […]
My initial evidence update for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) contained exactly no evidence, because nothing was published, despite recommendations at […]
How do you position the pads for cardioversion? Since my time in residency, the AP or anterior-posterior position […]
I recently posted a textbook chapter that I wrote about availability bias. (I strongly recommend the textbook, if […]
Normal saline: The world’s worst murder weapon? Finfer S, Micallef S, Hammond N, Navarra L, Bellomo R, Billot […]
I have discussed the ongoing battle between normal saline and ‘balanced fluids’ many times in the past. First, […]