I have spent a lot of time summarizing the evidence and trying to dispel myths when it comes to contrast and kidney injury. (Bottom line: we have massive amounts of evidence, and in controlled studies with modern contrast agents, we cannot find even the smallest hint of harm from contrast.) […]
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Vitamin C in sepsis: Don’t LOVIT Lamontagne F, Masse MH, Menard J, et al; LOVIT Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jun 23;386(25):2387-2398. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2200644. PMID: 35704292 This is a big […]
Many years ago, I wrote a review of the 2012 Canadian Association of Radiologists consensus guidelines for the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy (now called contrast-assocaited acute kidney injury), which I am only realizing now that I never published to the blog. (Owen 2014) I think there were some significant problems […]
Took a quick break from paternity leave to have a chat with my good friend Casey Parker, which of course meant we were going to talk about some evidence based medicine. I will go back to not doing academic work for a while, but for now here is that hit […]
When the dye starts, it might feel like you are peeing your pants. Don’t worry, you won’t actually pee. It’s just a side effect of the dye.” During my time in New Zealand, I have heard that speech far too many times. (The consequence of a strange rule that requires […]