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 […]
Anyone who has taken the time to make it through my entire post on performance under pressure knows that I have spent a lot of time reading and thinking about stress and the ways it affects us in emergency medicine. I read hundreds of articles and books when preparing my […]