Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the very rigorous process of whatever I happened to find interesting in my recent reading. The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: https://broomedocs.com/category/podcast/
laceration
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We have finally reached the end of the laceration repair series. So far, it seems like nothing we do really matters. Eversion was a myth. Glue and steri-strips are as good as sutures. For that matter, for many lacerations we could probably just do nothing at all. The human body […]
One of the first times I was really introduced to ‘dogma busting’ was when I was told early in residency that sterile gloves were absolutely not needed when repairing lacerations in the emergency department, and there were RCTs to prove it. I have lived by that anti-dogma dogma since, and […]
In part 2 of the laceration evidence series, we are going to tackle all of the evidence around wound irrigation and cleansing. The value of irrigation seems pretty obvious. Traumatic wounds are contaminated, and we should do our best to clean them. “The solution to pollution is dilution.” Therefore most […]
This is the beginning of a long series looking at all the evidence around laceration repair in the emergency department. This evidence will also be covered in depth on the Emergency Medicine Cases Journal Jam podcast. We will look at preparation of wounds, including irrigation and the use of sterile […]
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 […]
Here is another collection of the articles I have found interesting in my reading from the last month or so. For this edition of the Research Roundup we have status epilepticus, nocebos, the pink lady, McGyver bias, and so much more. Podcast version over on BroomeDocs.
