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Category Archives: critical appraisal

PK Talk for SMACC 2014

9 Mar

Here’s my PK talk for SMACC for 2014. The PK talks for those who can’t remember are short, snappy focused presentations on anything – the SMACC ones are of course focused on critical care. I presented the same material at … Read More »

critical appraisal, FOAM, trauma PK Talk, smacc, smacc gold, spinal cord injury 1 Comment

Low yield from cardiac stress testing for ED patients

20 Oct

Title says it all. And it’s all been said before. David Newman is unsurprisingly involved in this paper and the SMART EM on this is well worth your time. What they did: prospective data on their chest pain unit with … Read More »

critical appraisal ACS, EST, stress testing 1 Comment

Long term follow up on IST-3

16 Oct

I read this a few months back and forgot to post something on it. It’s not headline data the way IST 3 was but it’s worth knowing it’s out there. This is the long term (by which they mean 18 … Read More »

critical appraisal, stroke thrombolysis IST3, stroke, tPA 2 Comments

The 3MG Trial

16 Jun

Didn’t even know this trial was being done till Simon Carley posted on it. It came just too late to be added to be talk on the Crashing Asthmatic but there you go. Here’s my two cents on the trial … Read More »

critical appraisal asthma, critical appraisal, magnesium 2 Comments

Standing Test for Long-QT syndrome

28 Apr

This was all brand new to me. I was reviewing a syncope patient left over from the night shift before. The hand over was: recent change in anti-hypertensives, now feeling weak and dizzy about 1 week. Syncopal episode at dinner … Read More »

critical appraisal ecg, FOAMed, long QT, standing test, syncope 10 Comments

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