The pace of these literature summaries has decreased over the years, but perhaps that means that quality has increased? I think there is an interesting variety of papers this time around, from sepsis, to bullshit, to patient access to their own results online. A few huge papers dropped in the […]
pneumonia
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I’ve gone in depth into the topic of steroids for pneumonia previously. (Also covered on the EM Cases Journal Jam.) At the time, despite some promising point estimates, I thought that the evidence was too weak to suggest regular use of steroids for community acquired pneumonia. In that write up, […]
Outside of asthma or COPD, I have never prescribed steroids for community acquired pneumonia. Almost everyone has heard that dexamethasone might decrease mortality in COVID, but it is possible we should be using steroids in CAP as well. Although I have heard rumors of benefit for years, I have never […]
I was honoured to be invited on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine this week to discuss the FLORALI trial with Ken Milne. The episode is: SGEM#135: The Answer My Friend is Blowin’ in your Nose – High Flow Nasal Oxygen I had previously mentioned this paper in the May 2015 edition […]
