Back again with another month’s worth of interesting, inane, or sometimes important emergency medicine literature. As always, podcast version on BroomeDocs or YouTube.
evidence based medicine
18 posts
Over the last few years, I have seen a steady increase in the number of non-inferiority trials being published. This makes some sense, as they generally require fewer participants, and are therefore cheaper and easier to run. However, it presents a problem, as most of us (including myself) don’t really […]
I read a lot, but I am not very organized. Over the years, I have read thousands of papers about evidence based medicine and methodology. I frequently find myself wanting to share interesting papers with students, or cite them in my blog posts, but I forget where to find the […]
Might the FAST exam be the most overused test in emergency medicine? If not the most overused (it does have to compete with the white blood cell count after all), perhaps it is the most overrated? Considering the sacrosanct position ultrasound holds in emergency medicine, even asking this question might […]
It is already August! Even in COVID times, the days just seem to fly by. If you are looking for something boring to stretch those precious minutes out, I have another collection of evidence based medicine for you…
There are two massive problems with science publication, and maybe only one way to fix them. Any long time reader of this blog will have encountered me saying something like “this study should never have been published.” (See, for example, Andexanet Alfa: More garbage science in the New England Journal […]
A summary of Yeh 2018: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
A rant about guidelines (and an opportunity to help shape the future of the ILCOR guideline process)