
Direct versus Video Laryngoscopy: Are they just as good?
Did we get your attention? Good! This is one of the areas in Acute and Critical Care Medicine which is highly controversial. This post is a desire to explore the... Read more.

Double-Blind Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of Dopamine Versus Epinephrine as First-Line Vasoactive Drugs in Pediatric Septic Shock
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3.5/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Ventura AMC, et al. Crit Care Med. 2015 Nov;43(11):2292-302... Read more.

Immediate total-body CT scanning versus conventional imaging and selective CT scanning in patients with severe trauma (REACT-2): a randomised controlled trial
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2.5/5 Seirink JC et al. Lancet. 2016 Aug 13;388(10045):673-83. Abstract Link This is a multicenter... Read more.

Ah, that feels better! The Use of Nerve Blocks in the ED.
The ability to administer peripheral nerve blocks in the ED has the potential to provide fast and direct analgesia with less systemic side effects compared to parenteral... Read more.

Delivering safe and effective analgesia for management of renal colic in the emergency department: a double-blind, multi group, randomized control trial
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4.5/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Pathan SA, et al. Lancet. 2016 May 14;387(10032):1999-2007 ... Read more.

Ticagrelor versus Aspirin in Acute Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 5/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Johnston SC, et al. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jul 7;375(1):35-43.... Read more.

Randomized comparison of intravenous procainamide vs. intravenous amiodarone for the acute treatment of tolerated wide QRS tachycardia: the PROCAMIO study
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 2.5/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Ortiz M, et al. Eur Heart J. 2016 Jun 28. pii: ehw230.... Read more.

Top 5 Journal Club Articles In Emergency Medicine – 2015-2016 Academic year
Courtesy of klik internet This is a post summarizing our best-rated JC articles and the ones I find are the most useful from the past academic year. Each of the... Read more.

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I at presentation in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a cohort study
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Shah, AS, et al. Lancet. 2015 Dec 19;386(10012):2481-8 Full... Read more.

Corticosteroid Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Community- Acquired Pneumonia A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Siemieniuk RA, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163(7):519-528.... Read more.