There are new sepsis definitions! Hurrah? Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA. 315(8):801-10. 2016. PMID: 26903338 [free full text] There are new sepsis guidelines. I guess that warrants headline news, and there has been a lot of excitement […]
Evidence Based Medicine
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I got to sit down in person with Ken Milne this week while at the great SkiBEEM conference and talk about evidence based medicine. I know – life just can’t get much better. The episode of The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine that we recorded about the HEAT trial was just released today. […]
A review of the evidence surrounding the diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in pediatric patients
Welcome to another edition of the First1oEM articles of the month – a collection of my favorite reads from the emergency medicine literature. Location, location, location Drennan IR, Strum RP, Byers A et al. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in high-rise buildings: delays to patient care and effect on survival. Canadian Medical […]
This is a new study, hot off the press, from the resuscitation outcomes consortium. Usually I save up new papers and talk about them all in the articles of the month. However, I have been on a bit of an ACLS kick this month, starting with a summary on the […]
I was honoured to be invited on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine this week to discuss the FLORALI trial with Ken Milne. The episode is: SGEM#135: The Answer My Friend is Blowin’ in your Nose – High Flow Nasal Oxygen I had previously mentioned this paper in the May 2015 edition […]