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 …
Bayes and Belief: How pre-review belief influences critical appraisal. St Emlyn’s Read More »
Our regular round up of the best of the blog and podcast from January 2021 with Iain and Simon. The links to the articles are below together with a link …
This week JAMA published three important trials on the use of steroids in patients with severe COVID-19, with an additional cherry on top; a subsequent inclusive meta-analysis (totalling 7 RCTs …
We have previously covered the RECOVERY trial on St Emlyn’s noting that the first results out of this large pragmatic, adaptive design platform RCT showed no benefit to Hydroxychloroquine. A …
Dexamethasone, COVID-19 and the RECOVERY trial. St Emlyn’s Read More »
We’ve talked about the RECOVERY trial on the blog and podcast before. This is a UK based platform trial (more on this later) looking at patients admitted to hospital with …
The RECOVERY platform trial: No benefit to Hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19. St Emlyn’s Read More »
We have searched every COVID-19 publication, and summarised the literature of everything published in the last fortnight. We have highlighted those papers that will be of interest to EM clinicians …
Here we have specially selected, and summarised the literature for COVID-19 in the last week. We have highlighted those papers that will be of interest to EM clinicians on the …
Welcome to our third webinar and journal club reviewing recent research and featuring COVID-19 updates, hosted by the University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal College of Emergency Medicine …
It’s tough keeping up to date with the ever changing world of Covid19. Whilst we are all working hard at treating patients in the ED and ICU, we also need …
In a future post I’ll discuss the latest NICE guidance1 on the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism. When writing that though I knew that for many of you COVID-19 …
COVID-19 and Blood Clots: Diagnosis, D-dimers and Dilemmas Read More »