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…
pink lady
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Medical practice can be very hard to change. I have previously covered a paper from 2003 that showed that the “pink lady” or “GI cocktail” provides no benefit to patients, but lidocaine is still widely used for epigastric pain in emergency medicine. Of course, that prior paper was somewhat messy, […]
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.
The “pink lady” or “GI cocktail”, a combination of an antacid and viscous lidocaine, is both much loved and much hated in emergency medicine. Some practitioners use it as a matter of routine. Others warn against it, for fear that it can lead to misdiagnosis in the setting of MI. […]