Whenever you order a test, it is essential to know what you are going to do with the results. Tests, by themselves, cannot improve patient outcomes. Benefit can only occur if the test results in appropriate patients receiving a proven intervention.
Evidence Based Medicine
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In the first edition of the research roundup for 2019 we are going to cover pediatric head injury, oral antibiotics for complicated orthopedic infections, shaving eyebrows, bad science in the New England Journal of Medicine, a decision rule for opioid overdose, shark bites, heparin for ACS, cardiac monitoring in syncope, […]
Last year, the FDA granted andexanet alfa an accelerated approval as a reversal agent for factor Xa inhibitors, but based that decision on a complete lack of useable science. This decision is almost identical to the approval of idarucizumab, a debacle I have discussed previously. (At that time, I was […]
Complex orthopedic infections are traditionally managed with long courses of intravenous antibiotics. I have previously discussed, in the context of skin and soft tissue infection, that as long as the antibiotic is absorbed through the GI tract, there is no physiologic reason to think that IV antibiotics would be superior […]
I started writing this review of dog bite management a long time ago, but I abandoned it because I thought the word was already out. I thought this had been settled; that everyone knew these myths. However, a few recent conversations have highlighted the fact that the management of dog […]