Some topics come up over and over again, and it may seem somewhat repetitive or wasteful to spend so much time on them, but seeing as so many people are still using outpatient IV antibiotics despite overwhelming evidence that oral antibiotics are just as good, if not better, I will […]
EM literature (critical appraisals)
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If I am honest, on most of my shifts, other substances seem to be far more destructive than nicotine. I spend a lot of time talking to patients about suboxone, or dealing with the consequences of alcohol. I definitely talk to people about smoking, but aside from brief counseling and […]
Welcome back to another research roundup. This edition doesn’t have any immediate practice changers, but I think there are some very important topics. Enjoy. The BroomeDocs podcast: https://broomedocs.com/2024/09/first10em-journal-club-august-2024/ The BroomeDocs podcast on YouTube: (I am on vacation, so this will probably be inserted later.)
Some big and potentially practice changing articles this month. (I tend to read ridiculous articles in my free time, which I have had very little of, and so there are no intubation in outer space or highly philosophical papers about the language this month. Don’t worry, there is still a […]
Preparation for intubation, appropriate preoxygenation, and preventing peri-intubation arrests has been one of my core topics for conference talks. My initial airway series emphasized “optimizing the basics” and carefully considering “is this patient ready for intubation?”. My “RSI and then they die” lecture is by far my most watched video […]
As we have covered multiple times before, the evidence for paxlovid is heavily conflicted and mostly negative. There is very little reason to be using this agent clinically. However, despite an utter lack of evidence, many people have held out hope that paxlovid might be the miracle cure for the […]
Back again with another month’s worth of interesting, inane, or sometimes important emergency medicine literature. As always, podcast version on BroomeDocs or YouTube.
We have previously discussed the many pharmaceutical advertisements published by the New England Journal of Medicine, thinly disguised as science, such as the original open label uncontrolled look at andexanet alfa. (Connolly 2019) At that point, I concluded that andexanet alfa should clearly not be used (although our pharmacies didn’t […]
Years ago, this started as the “articles of the month” and was truly a monthly undertaking. In order to become more regular with the BroomeDocs podcast, I am going to try once again to make this a monthly endeavor, although that might mean fewer articles in each edition. For the […]