Over the last month, normal blog content has taken a back seat to the COVID pandemic. I will continue to update the COVID resources, and write about new studies as they come out, but I think it is about time that we got back to regular content. Let’s start with […]
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In the first post of this two part series, I went in depth into the basic science of droplets and aerosols, how they spread, and how that might impact our infection control practices. This post will take a closer look at aerosol generating procedures.
The rapid emergence of COVID-19 has created tremendous uncertainty in medicine. We don’t know where this pandemic is headed. We don’t know the ideal management strategy. Every day brings conflicting information. Emergency medicine is a field that embraces (or at least tolerates) uncertainty, but knowledge is an important pillar of […]
The treatment of viral pneumonia is supportive care. The arrival of COVID-19 has not changed that basic principle. Due to the scope of the crisis, there is massive interest in finding other possible treatments. I will review the evidence for those various treatments, starting today with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, but […]
For a long time, we have been planning an episode of the EMCases Journal Jam series that will look at the evidence for or against TXA in almost all clinical settings. (It has been in the planning stages for a long time, because it is un-surprisingly hard to coordinate the […]
A new paper was published this month that is likely to change the way that a lot of people manage spontaneous pneumothorax (although I don’t think it will significantly change my practice)…
Sucrose is not a pain medication. That rant already exists on this blog. It was also the subject of my talk at the final SMACC conference, which is now online. Another blog post is probably unnecessary, but neither resource included the references from my literature review, so for those who […]
Superstitions are sort of fun. They represent a lack of scientific understanding and critical thinking that I obviously hate, but they also offer us interesting and relatively harm free insights into the many failings of human cognition. I say “quiet” a lot. I like the word. Although it occasionally upsets […]
Since publishing my 5 part series illustrating that stress tests are useless (also available as an EM Cases Journal Jam Episode and on EM:RAP), I have received a number of requests to review coronary CT angiography (CCTA). After all, stress testing is old technology. CCTA is newer and therefore obviously […]