EM literature (critical appraisals) Archives

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

High flow nasal oxygen is a good option for palliative …

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

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 […]

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

For the last two decades, TXA has been put on a pedestal in emergency medicine. It has been […]

About a week ago, colchicine seemed to come out of the blue as a possible the treatment of […]

In this month’s edition of the research round-up, we have everything from Bayesian analysis to CPR in outer […]