A true rarity: An RCT demonstrating a mortality benefit, but is it too good to be true? Matchett G, Gasanova I, Riccio CA, Nasir D, Sunna MC, Bravenec BJ, Azizad O, Farrell B, Minhajuddin A, Stewart JW, Liang LW, Moon TS, Fox PE, Ebeling CG, Smith MN, Trousdale D, Ogunnaike […]
therapeutic hypothermia
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As anticipated, my “monthly” summaries have become even less frequent, as I discovered that there are a few things in life even more enjoyable than reading the medical literature. I won’t apologize for choosing my 9 month old over evidence based medicine, but I will continue to put out these […]
We recently released an Emergency Medicine Cases Journal Jam episode covering all the available literature on ‘therapeutic’ hypothermia. Unfortunately, JAMA didn’t think to inform us that they had another big RCT in the pipeline, so the “CAPITAL CHILL” trial got left out of our summary. CAPITAL CHILL is somewhat unique, […]
Despite ‘therapeutic’ hypothermia’s widespread use, the evidence for the practice has always been weak. I went through that evidence here. At that point, I tried to be optimistic, given the potentially positive results of the HYPERION trial, but I also noted the many problems with HYPERION that left me skeptical. […]
After two editions focused on COVID, it’s time to get back to some standard emergency medicine topics. (Yes, there are many more COVID papers to cover, but I am sort of sick of reading them.) This time we cover dog therapy in the ED, imaging for renal colic, hypothermia, vitamin […]
Over the last month, normal blog content has taken a back seat to the COVID pandemic. I will continue to update the COVID resources, and write about new studies as they come out, but I think it is about time that we got back to regular content. Let’s start with […]
