When a scientific paper is immediately covered in lay media, you can almost guarantee a lot of incorrect takes. When a new paper comes out on any hotly debated topic, you are bound to see strong opinions lacking almost any nuance. The only thing that is somewhat strange about the […]
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A true rarity: An RCT demonstrating a mortality benefit, but is it too good to be true? Matchett G, Gasanova I, Riccio CA, Nasir D, Sunna MC, Bravenec BJ, Azizad O, Farrell B, Minhajuddin A, Stewart JW, Liang LW, Moon TS, Fox PE, Ebeling CG, Smith MN, Trousdale D, Ogunnaike […]
Normal saline: The world’s worst murder weapon? Finfer S, Micallef S, Hammond N, Navarra L, Bellomo R, Billot L, Delaney A, Gallagher M, Gattas D, Li Q, Mackle D, Mysore J, Saxena M, Taylor C, Young P, Myburgh J; PLUS Study Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care […]
It’s that time again. A roundup of the most interesting emergency medicine articles I have read in the last few months.
For some reason, masks seem to provoke very strong opinions in medicine. Despite being one of the closest things we have to parachutes – devices so simple and obvious that RCT evidence may not even be needed – people lament the lack of evidence, and mistakenly translate the paucity of […]