Notes from Dr. RW

Larry Husten's latest rant on industry supported CME is a confusing, frustrating read. It asks the wrong questions and ...

This may be the best review of blastomycosis I've read. Some key points: Unlike many other fungal infectio...

Free review .

Here's a case report and review .

This question was recently addressed in a review published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. The revie...

From a very important new study and accompanying commentary we can learn some valuable lessons: Out of 101 patients...

Now that people are increasingly using lactated ringers as the go to resuscitation fluid this issue will arise more frequentl...

A nice summary from the Mayo Clinic EM Blog .

A recent review , seeking to answer that question and summarizing the evidence, concluded: Conventional management th...

Here's a new review in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. Key points: Cannabinoids (drugs produced ...

From a recent review : BACKGROUND: This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials aimed to systematically ...

I recently pointed out an American Heart Association publication's surprisingly credulous view of chelation therapy . N...

From a recent free full text review : In a large retrospective study of 1006 patients, an ESR of 100 mm/hour ...

Many health policy experts claim that reduction of variation in treatments by adherence to evidence based medicine would curb costs. T...

From JAMA . Nothing new here, and the review ignores recent research on obesity reduction as a treatment for atrial fibrilla...

Key points from a review in mayo Clinic Proceedings: Although larger trials are needed, small studie...

From the Mayo Clinic EMBlog .

This systematic review found insufficient evidence .

Here's a summary post from the Mayo EMBlog .

A manifestation of Wellens syndrome .