Craig M, Jeavons R, Probert J, Benger J. Randomised comparison of intravenous paracetamol and intravenous morphine for acute traumatic limb pain in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal 10.1136/emj.2010.104687 PMID 21362724 I confess I have a bias against this stuff. … Read More »
Jacobs IG, Finn JC, Jelinek GA, Oxer HF, Thompson PL. Effect of adrenaline on survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Resuscitation 2011 Sep.;82(9):1138–1143. PMID 21745533 This paper got a lot of attention in the podcasting/blogging world but … Read More »
First off – “dizziness” as a symptom is a bit of a mess. We can’t blame the patients for that but we must be clear that we’re not entirely sure what it means when a patient tells us they’re dizzy. … Read More »
Bond MC, Lemkin DL, Brady W. The orthopedic literature 2009. Am J Emerg Med 2011 Oct.;29(8):943–953. PMID 20934830 I wasn’t sure if this was a spoof when I first read the title but it does indeed appear that there is some … Read More »
Albert, Richard K, John Connett, William C Bailey, Richard Casaburi, J Allen D Cooper, Gerard J Criner, Jeffrey L Curtis, et al “Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations of COPD..” The New England journal of medicine 365, no. 8 (August 25, … Read More »