Journal Club

Understanding what you are reading is paramount when keeping up with advances in medicine.

What is Evidence Based Medicine?

Can’t quite remember how to appraise a paper? What exactly does PICO stand for?

Check out the following slides for a bit of a refresher

Critical Appraisal Tools

1)      GATE analysis by University of Auckland

Workbooks in Excel spreadsheets which are designed to be filled in online so you can input data from the study to calculate or check statistics (really useful!). Worth watching the accompanying presentations to understand the GATE method of appraisal

2)      Centre for Evidence Based Medicine by University of Oxford

Printable worksheets that take you through a step by step approach to analysing a study

Need Some Inspiration?

What’s current in emergency medicine?

Here are some ideas of recent practice changing topics and papers

• Fasting for procedural sedation

• Quick wee method for clean catch urine

• Peripheral vasopressors

• Appendicitis - antibiotics vs surgery

• Contrast nephropathy

• Clot retrieval in stroke

• Roc vs Sux for RSI

• Cardioversion for AF

• ConSEPT study (status epilepticus)

• Food bolus obstruction

• Conservative vs interventional management for spontaneous pneumothorax

Journal Club June 2024

RCT of peri-intubation hypoxia and a paper looking at the effects on NIV in comatose poisoned patients.

Sadly the presenters failed on the presenting via streaming test but the discussions are good!

Journal Club 3rd June 2020

Peter McNamee - DAWN trial - Thrombectomy at 6 to 24 hours

Noah Bunkley  -  Antibiotics in Appendicitis - 2015 APPAC trial