In a lecture series entitled “Get off the fence”, in which I discuss practice changing evidence based medicine, I have discussed the role of antibiotics in diverticulitis multiple times this year. Although I have discussed the topic previously on First10EM, I wanted to provide a quick summary of the most […]
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Another month, another collection of (hopefully) interesting medical publications. When trial results are too good to be true, think fraud? Sheldrick, K. Evidence of Fabricated Data in a Vitamin C trial by Paul E Marik et al in CHEST. Available at: https://kylesheldrick.blogspot.com/2022/03/evidence-of-fabricated-data-in-vitamin.html This is the first time I have ever […]
October 2020. A month that many have declared the worst of all time, but can it really be that bad if you are getting another edition of the research roundup, with all sorts of EBM goodness?
We have discussed evidence that antibiotics may not help diverticulitis multiple times on this blog (for example here and here). After another negative RCT, it is time to tackle the difficult question of how much evidence we need to overturn long standing medical practices.
It’s that time again. Sure, there may be a lot to do during the month of December, but what better way to procrastinate than to grab a mug of hot chocolate, sit down in front of the fire, and read about some emergency medicine evidence based medicine…. (If that doesn’t […]
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 […]