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Category Archives: critical appraisal

Full Capacity Protocols

23 Mar

[image via NetDance on Flickr. CC License] Hospitals are busy places. We have no space, no beds, no staff and inevitably less money to make this all happen. This is the situation we have. We’re fairly pragmatic folks so we … Read More »

critical appraisal, thinking about medicine FCP, overcrowding, stony brook 1 Comment

EM docs are more burnt out than most but none of us are great…

17 Mar

The night shift insomnia that leaves me with about 4 hrs sleep a day has given me the chance to catch up with a bit of reading so here’s a paper for you. This got a very amount of Twitter … Read More »

critical appraisal, thinking about medicine 14 Comments

Keeping up with the literature

16 Feb

Today I think I’m finally giving up on my old system. The old system was email subscriptions to the table of contents (TOC) of about 30 different journals that i filed under a gmail label and reviewed roughly monthly. If I saw … Read More »

critical appraisal, FOAM, geekery critical appraisal, emergency medicine, FOAMed, journal watch, lit review 14 Comments

Steroids for migraine Best Bet

25 Jan

Shameless self-promotion here but a Best Bet written by myself and @dreapadoirtas of underneathEM just got published in the EMJ this month. If you’re a FOAM follower then you’ll probably already heard that a dose of dex can reduced the rate of … Read More »

critical appraisal, publication best bet, EMJ, migraine, steroids 5 Comments

Is pulmonary embolism really all that bad?… Again…

10 Jan

Pollack, Charles V, Donald Schreiber, Samuel Z Goldhaber, David Slattery, John Fanikos, Brian J O’Neil, James R Thompson, et al. “Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Patients Diagnosed with Acute Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department: Initial Report of EMPEROR … Read More »

critical appraisal FOAMed, mortality, PE, VTE 19 Comments

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