by emottawa | Oct 5, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 4.5/5 Perry, Jeffrey J. et al. Full Article This prospective observational cohort study identified a cutoff as 2000 x 106/L RBC on the final CSF tube and no xanthochromia as a...
by emottawa | Sep 28, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 1.5/5 Usefulness Score: 1/5 Baş M, Greve J, Stelter K, et al. N Engl J Med. 2015 Jan 29;372(5):418-25 Full Article This small phase 2, multicenter, double blind randomized trial of 30 ED patients found a...
by emottawa | Sep 21, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 2.5/5 Usefulness Score: 2.5/5 Abrahamian FM, Krishnadasan A, Mower WR, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Nov;62(5):526-33. Abstract Link Pyuria alone cannot be used to determine if UTI is present in patients with...
by emottawa | Sep 7, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Tsivgoulis G, Katsanos AH, Butcher KS, et al. Neurology. 2014 Oct 21;83(17):1523-9 Abstract Link This systematic review and meta-analysis of 4 RCTs found that mortality rates...
by emottawa | Aug 31, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Blum CA, Nigro N Briel M, et al. Lancet. 2015 Jan 16. pii: S0140-6736(14)62447-8. Abstract Link This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial demonstrated an improved time to ‘clinical...
by emottawa | Aug 17, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 2.5/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Nijman RG, et al. BMJ. 2013 Apr 2;346:f1706. Full Article This was a derivation, cross-validation, and external validation of a decision rule for the febrile pediatric patient to identify who is at...
by emottawa | Aug 10, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2.5/5 Florin TA, Shaw KN, Kittick M, Yakscoe S, Zorc JJ. JAMA Pediatr. 2014Jul;168(7):664-70. Full Article This single-centre triple-blinded study compared nebulized 3% saline (hypertonic) to 0.9%...
by emottawa | Jul 27, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Montalescot G, van ‘t Hof AW, Lapostolle F, et al. for the ATLANTIC Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 11;371(11):1016-27. Full Article This corporate-sponsored international, multicenter,...
by emottawa | Jul 20, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3.5/5 Usefulness Score: 4/5 Orr SL, et al. Cephalalgia. 2014 May 29. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24875925 This Canadian Headache Society guideline for ED management of acute migraine gave a strong...
by emottawa | Jul 13, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Herbst MK, Rosenberg G, Daniels B, Gross CP, Singh D, Molinaro AM, Luty S, Moore CL. Ann Emerg Med. 2014 Sep;64(3):269-76. Abstract Link This prospective study of ED patients...
