The ProMISe Study: EGDT RIP?
Today is another landmark in the history of sepsis research. The long awaited results of the ProMISe trial are finally published in the New England Journal of Medicine. At 56 […]
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JC: Drinking From the Firehose – Keeping Up with the Literature
You’ve probably heard the claim that the body of scientific knowledge is growing at an alarming rate – doubling every 9 years is a recent estimate. It’s easy to hear
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JC: ED RSI – you can do it. St.Emlyn’s
If you follow my twitter feed, or the feed of the @stemlyns team then you will know that we are advocates of ED RSI. Our patients often present unexpectedly, in
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JC: Getting the Balance Right: The PROPPR Trial
Last week saw the publication of the results of the Pragmatic Randomised Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR) Trial by Holcomb et al. (et al. includes almost all of
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JC: What’s the ‘best’ test for a broken chest?
A 45 year old man comes off his motorbike on a country road. He is flagged up as major trauma and gets the full works, including WBCT. This reveals nothing
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JC: Intra-arterial treatment for Stroke
Here at St.Emlyn’s the whole team loves a good stroke trial as they always throw up controversies and concerns about methods, outcomes and our absolute favourite ‘statistics’. That said, although
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JC: PARAMEDIC trial m-CPR at St.Emlyn’s
In some ways you might be forgiven for thinking that 2014 was a bit disappointing in terms of EBM. A number of clinical trials that I’ve been looking forward
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JC – Just Checking: Do Follow-Up Phone Calls Reduce Reattendance to PED?
Lots of patients we see in the ED do not require hospital admission and this is especially true of the paediatric ED where children often attend with parents seeking advice for management
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