A Critical Appraisal Nugget about Positive and Negative Predictive Value and their use when interpreting diagnostic tests.
Podcast – Positive and Negative Predictive Values: Critical Appraisal Nugget 11 Read More
Does the use of non invasive ventilation prior to intubation of critically ill patients improve outcomes?
Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation during Emergency Intubation Read More
This secondary analysis of the DOSE VF trial highlights double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) as a superior strategy over standard and vector change defibrillation for refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF)
Does the outcome from refractory VF differ from recurrent VF in DOSE-VF patients? Read More
Presentation skills – what are they and why do we need to have them? This post covers the things to consider before you even open any presentation software.
Ten Tips for Better Presentations – Part 1 Read More
Review of an RCT of serratus anterior plane blocks in the emergency department for chest/rib injury. Is this now a standard of care?
Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for rib fractures in the Emergency Department Read More
The practice of coordinating, consulting and managing an entire acute clinical service in real-time is fairly unique to emergency medicine. Central to this is the EPiC (or emergency physician in charge) role #FOAMed @stemlyns with @codingbrown
An EPiC mental model. St Emlyn’s Read More
Our regular round up of the best of the blog with @docib and @emmanchester . Decompensated liver disease, mechanical CPR, frailty, global health and more.
Is mechanical CPR associated with improved or worse outcomes in in-hospital cardiac arrest. #FOAMed @stemlyns
Is mCPR associated with better outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest? Read More
