Looking back, I am somewhat surprised I never published a First10 approach to sympathetic crashing pulmonary edema. I guess it never felt necessary, as it was the first ever EMCrit post, and therefore felt well covered in the FOAMed community. However, a full 15 years after that first EMCrit podcast […]
EM literature (critical appraisals)
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Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the very rigorous process of whatever I happened to find interesting in my recent reading. The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: https://broomedocs.com/category/podcast/
Nail bed injuries aren’t quite common enough to cause the same debates as TXA, or IV antibiotics, or tPa, but talk to 10 different emergency doctors and you are likely to get 10 different opinions about the management of these injuries. Therefore, even though the NINJA study doesn’t answer the […]
Usually, I reserve stand alone blog posts for high quality papers. Usually, garbage science is either ignored, or reserved for brief mentions in the Research Roundups. However, the conclusion of this paper, which states “it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify not making MRI a mandatory part of the clinical […]
REBOA (resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta) has been discussed in the emergency medicine world for quite some time now, but always with very limited data. There have been some observational studies that suggested REBOA was associated with worse outcomes, but the outcomes were largely assumed to be the […]
I love when people use science to investigate the many simple assumptions we make about the world. Not every trial needs to look novel (mostly read “me too”) drugs or fancy procedures. I also have a child in the age range for croup, and we are in our winter viral […]
Throughout the length of my career, we have consistently heard that less is more when it comes to blood transfusions (outside of the critically ill requiring massive transfusion, where the message, correct or not, has been the exact opposite). This has been aided by the rise of intravenous iron, giving […]
Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the rigorous process of whatever I happened to find most interesting in my recent reading (with a couple suggestions from Dr. Casey Parker). The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: […]
Evidentiary amnesia is a term I use to describe the phenomenon I frequently encounter in which evidence seems to be forgotten over time. When I hear people lecture about the management of intracranial hemorrhage, and even when I invite incredibly smart people to write about neurologic emergencies, blood pressure management […]