First10EM Journal Club: August 2020
Welcome back for another month of nerdy Nirvana with Dr Justin Morgenstern. This month on the journal club we cover TXA for GI, Dex for...
CoVid, Dex and Death… Recovery
The big news out of the UK this week is the RECOVERY trial. We just may have found a simple therapeutic intervention that can reduce...
PODCAST: Vancomycin by Continuous Infusion
A few weeks ago I posted on Vancomycin and the Nephrocidal Maniacs – in that post I described the problems that we have in the...
I: Vancomycin & the Nephrocidal Maniacs
Vancomycin was first isolated in 1953 by Edmund Kornfeld from a soil sample collected from the jungles of Borneo by a missionary. It is produced...
VTE Risk and Prophylaxis: Devil in the Details
VTE is a problem – there is definitely a risk of hospitalized patients acquiring and either dying or developing complications from VTE. The problem is...