I tend to read a lot. In previous years, one of the things I have found frustrating is forgetting which books I have already read when when hunting for my next read (especially with long series or authors with a huge number of titles). Therefore, this year I decided to […]
Rants & Ramblings
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A rant about guidelines (and an opportunity to help shape the future of the ILCOR guideline process)
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.
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 […]