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 […]
steroids
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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, […]
This is part of the ongoing series of articles updating the evidence on current COVID-19 therapies. The rest of the series can be found here, and there is probably more to come. This article will cover the evidence for inhaled steroids in COVID-19. I already covered the evidence for budesonide […]
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 […]
In this month’s edition of the research round-up, we have everything from Bayesian analysis to CPR in outer space. With that kind of range, hopefully I have found something interesting for every reader.
I have been working on a deep dive into steroids for community acquired pneumonia for a long time. The content of that evidence review was just recorded as an episode of the EM Cases Journal Jam, which will be out soon. My focus was on steroids for community acquired pneumonia, […]
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…
I have avoided commenting on vitamin C for sepsis, because commentary seemed rather unnecessary. The hype was obviously ridiculous. The chances of it helping were clearly low. The evidence of benefit was negligible. Others had widely discussed the papers, and most people seemed to be ignoring this “miracle cure.” However, […]
There are a lot of recurrent themes in this month’s edition of the articles of the month (which has clearly shifted from being a monthly to a bimonthly publication). Podcast over on BroomeDocs.