Podcast – May 2021 Monthly Round Up
Our regular round up of the blog highlights in podcast form as hosted by Ian and Simon.
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Evidence Based Medicine
Explore the principles of evidence-based medicine, including critical appraisal, clinical decision-making, and the latest research in emergency and acute care. Our posts help clinicians interpret evidence, apply it to practice, and improve patient outcomes with a scientific approach.
JC: Aspirin is not effective for hospitalised COVID19 patients. St Emlyn’s
We’ve reported on the RECOVERY trial several times already on the blog. It stands out as the most important trial of therapeutics in hospitalised patients with COVID19. This week the
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Bayes and Belief: How pre-review belief influences critical appraisal. St Emlyn’s
I’ve been reflecting on why there is disagreement about how influential new evidence is to clinical practice in the last year or so. COVID-19 has shown that the thresholds for
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JC: Convalescent plasma (still) does not work in COVID-19. St Emlyn’s
The latest results on the use of convalescent plasma in Covid-19 are now out from the RECOVERY trial as a pre-print. As you know we have already covered the trial
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JC: Real world cricothyroidotomy experience. St Emlyn’s
Cricothyroidotomy is a procedure that worried many emergency physicians. Partly because it’s a rare procedure, but also because we are likely to embarking on it at a time when things
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Colchicine does not improve mortality in COVID19. St Emlyn’s
This week the RECOVERY trial has released the first results from the Colchicine arm of the trial. We await the pre-print and the peer reviewed paper, but we are already
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JC: Epistaxis – The NoPAC trial – Does TXA work?
Is Tranexamic Acid a useful adjunct in the management of epistaxis
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Oxygen targets in critical care: The HOT-ICU trial. St Emlyn’s
Oxygen targets in critically ill/injured patients has been something we’ve talked about on the blog before. In general the evidence to date has suggested that the routine prescription of oxygen
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