Evidence Based Medicine Archives - Page 31 of 37

Bartholin's abscesses word catheter evidence

A brief review of the evidence in the management of Bartholin's abscesses

What’s the word on Word catheters?

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The evidence for using vasopressors through a peripheral IV

Peripheral vasopressors: the myth and the evidence

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A brief review of the evidence for fasting in sedation

NPO for sedation? Don’t swallow the myth

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What follows is a post that you will see on a number of websites this week explaining the petition to retract the 2018 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines. You can read the guideline here. Although many of the individual recommendations seems reasonable, I think these guidelines could end up harming patients.

Petition to retire the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines

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articles of the year handout title image

Hand out for the articles of the year lecture at EMU 2018

Articles of the year (EMU 2018)

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Most medical practices are not parachutes

I was invited on EMCrit to discuss my position on idarucizumab and I fear I didn’t do a great job explaining myself. I don’t want to spend more time discussing the specifics of idarucizumab, but I think the larger problem of declaring that a therapy works without study, or declaring […]