Hello EBM listeners After a month of radio silence we are back with the March episode of the Justin & Casey Journal club. This month we have 11 papers in 3-quarters of an hour. We cover the good, bad and ugly of migraine sprays. How Facebook stats can determine your longevity, Marik’s Magic Sepsis Sauce […]
Stats, CRP and Sick Kids
Posted on October 11, 2016 · 11 Comments
So I have been having a particularly nerdy week. After the recent review of the point-of-care CRP paper I got to thinking. We all seem to have an opinion about CRP based on what we think we know – but I think most of us have a pretty shady understanding of the true diagnostic characteristics […]
On Sick Kids and CRPs
Posted on October 7, 2016 · 3 Comments
Today I am doing a post-publication review of an interesting paper that popped into my inbox this week. This paper was sent to me by the University of Lueven where the research was based via a promotion email. This is the promotional email, entitled: “Rapid blood test can rule out serious infections in children”. Rapid blood […]
No Xray, No Problem: the evidence
Posted on February 3, 2016 · Leave a Comment
So in case you missed #SMACC in Chicago – I was lucky enough to be able to talk about one of my greatest passions – bedside Ultrasound. The talk was a bit of the evangelical side – the goal being to try and make the audience think about how we image patients. I wanted to […]
Clinical Cases 122: Feast, Fast or Flood Fluid Freesome
Posted on November 30, 2015 · 3 Comments
This is a “what would Weingart do?” trio of cases. If you haven’t been keeping up with ‘the Man’s podcast then you would have missed the last few episodes where he has re-explored the modern paradigm of fluid resuscitation in Critical Care. We have seen a whole tsunami of potential answers, techniques and a few […]
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