January 2017 First10EM Journal Club
Greetings fellow EBM nerds of a feather!
Its the the end of the month already which means that it’s time to review all the interesting papers that Justin has found on his night table in his cold, Toronto apartment.
This month is we do are covering othopaedics, zipper injuries, anxious chest pain patients and a whole heap more. So sit back, grab a beverage and listen in for our first rapid fire journal club for 2017.
The full text PDFs of all the papers we discuss are below and you can check out Justin’s perspicacious, well-worded summary over at First10EM. Here we go!
Martindale JL, Wakai A, Collins SP. Diagnosing Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Academic emergency medicine. 23(3):223-42. 2016.
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Hi Casey and Justin,
Thank you for another informative podcast. I was interested to hear the outcome of the physiotherapy for ankle sprains paper. Having read the paper there was no mention of reinjury rate (only that people that reinjured were followed up at 1, 3 & 6 months).
My understanding is that the supposed main benefit of physiotherapy is to decrease the reinjury rate by improving proprioception – though this is based on a large series of poor quality papers. (Did a quick lit review, papers I found are either overall poor quality, use non patient outcome based measures, or reviews of other papers and comment that they are poor quality and better quality research is needed.)
This thus leaves me in a quandary, no clear benefit from physiotherapy in terms of return to function; but unclear if it decreases the reinjury rate.
What are your thoughts?