Back for another month of interesting, arcane, important, or baffling articles. As we enter the winter in the Northern hemisphere, and I have little interest in heading outside, I will probably spend more time reading, so these write ups might get longer for the next few months. For now, the […]
Pediatrics
37 posts
As with everything that comes out of the PECARN group, this is a huge study, and is therefore one that everyone needs to know about. That being said, despite working in two very busy community hospitals with a high percentage of pediatrics visits, c-spine injuries are just not an issue […]
Some topics come up over and over again, and it may seem somewhat repetitive or wasteful to spend so much time on them, but seeing as so many people are still using outpatient IV antibiotics despite overwhelming evidence that oral antibiotics are just as good, if not better, I will […]
I love when people use science to investigate the many simple assumptions we make about the world. Not every trial needs to look novel (mostly read “me too”) drugs or fancy procedures. I also have a child in the age range for croup, and we are in our winter viral […]
Welcome back to another edition of the research roundup, where we discuss an eclectic collection of articles selected through the rigorous process of whatever I happened to find most interesting in my recent reading (with a couple suggestions from Dr. Casey Parker). The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: […]
This is a guest post by Dr. Lanujan Kaneswaran. Lanujan is a first-year Family Medicine resident at the University of Toronto. He has a background in medical health informatics and machine learning. His areas of interest include artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine, and health equity through advocacy and […]
I don’t think I have seen any medical intervention adopted as quickly as high flow nasal oxygen. However, despite its prevalence, there are still many questions about its role. Although the original PARIS trial was technically positive, the results did not look great to me. Here, we will cover the […]
This is a guest post by Brian Lee and Dennis Ren: Dr. Brian Lee is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Dr Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine […]
This is a guest post by Harrison Hayward and Dennis Ren: Dr. Harrison Hayward is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital. He finished his General Pediatrics residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. As an editor and writer of continuing medical education material for the clinical case-sharing app, Figure […]