Back again with an eclectic collection of papers that might improve your practice, make you think, or just help you fall asleep at night. (Podcast available here.)
N95 masks
7 posts
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 […]
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 […]
I hope to get back to normal emergency medicine literature sometime soon, but for now there is enough new COVID-19 research that I think another COVID specific research roundup is worthwhile. In this edition, I will tackle some more evidence that COVID can be spread by the airborne route, some […]
N95 masks are designed to be single use. In normal times, they shouldn’t be reworn. In normal times, they shouldn’t be decontaminated and reused. But these are not normal times. COVID-19 has resulted in drastic PPE shortages around the world, and has left many hospital systems considering options for reusing […]
I will preface this COVID research roundup edition with the warning that we are making many decisions based on very weak science. I generally don’t include that many really weak studies in these write-ups, unless they are really entertaining. However, when searching for scientific answers to my questions about COVID, […]
