Before jumping into this edition, I need to address the maternal kisses study discussed last time. Obviously the study was satire, and did an excellent job in making us laugh, but most satire studies (like those in the Christmas edition of the BMJ) are real studies. Apparently this paper was […]
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It’s time for another edition of the research round up and BroomeDocs journal club – a collection of the most interesting emergency medicine research I have encountered in the last few months. This time around we have (of course) CRASH 3, some articles on laceration repair, improving the ED experience […]
Although the CT scan is a wonderful piece of technology that has undoubtedly improved the practice of emergency medicine, we are clearly over-using this technology in modern practice. For example, one study that looked retrospectively at all head CTs ordered for trauma concluded that more than 1/3 were unnecessary based […]
In the first edition of the research roundup for 2019 we are going to cover pediatric head injury, oral antibiotics for complicated orthopedic infections, shaving eyebrows, bad science in the New England Journal of Medicine, a decision rule for opioid overdose, shark bites, heparin for ACS, cardiac monitoring in syncope, […]
