Journal Club Archives

Early versus Later Rhythm Analysis in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

by EMOttawa | Jul 23, 2012 | Journal Club, landmark

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 4.5/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Stiell IG, Nichol G, Leroux BG, Rea TD, Ornato JP, Powell J, Christenson J, Callaway CW, Kudenchuk PJ, Aufderheide TP, Idris AH, Daya MR, Wang HE, Morrison LJ, Davis D, Andrusiek D, Stephens S, Cheskes S,...

International collaborative systematic review of controlled clinical trials on pharmacologic treatments for acute pericarditis and its recurrences

by emottawa | Jul 19, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 2/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Lotrionte M, Biondi-Zoccai G, Imazio M, Castagno D, Moretti C, Abbate A, Agostoni P, Brucato AL, Di Pasquale P, Raatikka M, Sangiorgi G, Laudito A, Sheiban I, Gaita F. Am Heart J. 2010 Oct;160(4):662-70....

Time to treatment with intravenous alteplase and outcome in stroke: an updated pooled analysis of ECASS, ATLANTIS, NINDS, and EPITHET trials

by EMOttawa | Jul 9, 2012 | Journal Club, landmark

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 4.5/5 Lees KR, Bluhmki E, von Kummer R, Brott TG, Toni D, Grotta JC, Albers GW, Kaste M, Marler JR, Hamilton SA, Tilley BC, Davis SM, Donnan GA, Hacke W; ECASS, ATLANTIS, NINDS and EPITHET rt-PA Study Group, Allen...

Sublingual buprenorphine in acute pain management: a double-blind randomized clinical trial

by emottawa | Jul 3, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Jalili M, Fathi M, Moradi-Lakeh M, Zehtabchi S. Ann Emerg Med. 2012 Apr;59(4):276-80. PubMed Link This double blind, double dummy RCT compared sublingual Buprenorphine (0.4 mg) to IV Morphine (5 mg) for...

Four sensitive screening tools to detect cognitive dysfunction in geriatric emergency department patients: brief alzheimer’s screen, short blessed test, Ottawa 3DY and the caregiver-completed AD8

by emottawa | Jun 27, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 3.5 Usefulness: 3.5 Carpenter CR, Bassett ER, Fischer GM, Shirshekan J, Galvin JE, Morris JC.   Acad Emerg Med 2011 April 18(4): 374-384.  Article Link  Trained research assistants administered cognitive dysfunction screening...

Induction of prehospital therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from nonventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

by emottawa | Jun 19, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 2/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Bernard SA, Smith K, Cameron P, Masci K, Taylor DM, Cooper DJ, Kelly AM, Silvester W; Rapid Infusion of Cold Hartmanns Investigators. Crit Care Med. 2012 Mar;40(3):747-53. Pubmed Link This study looked at the...

Validation and Refinement of a Rule to Predict Emergency Intervention in Adult Trauma Patients

by emottawa | Jun 11, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 1.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Haukoos JS, Byyny RL, Erickson C, Paulson S, Hopkins E, Sasson C, Bender B, Gravitz CS, Vogel JA, Colwell CB, Moore EE. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Aug;58(2):164-71. Article Link This retrospective validation of two...

Does This Patient Have a Severe Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed?

by emottawa | Jun 5, 2012 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 2.5/5 Usefulness: 2.5/5 Srygley FD, Gerardo CJ, Tran T, Fisher DA. JAMA. 2012 Mar 14;307(10):1072-9 Article Link This recent installment of JAMA’s Rational Clinical Examination series found that a history or physical exam...

Association Between Arterial Hyperoxia Following Resuscitation From Cardiac Arrest and In-Hospital Mortality

by EMOttawa | Jun 3, 2012 | Journal Club, landmark

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Kilgannon JH, Jones AE, Shapiro NI, Angelos MG, Milcarek B, Hunter K, Parrillo JE, Trzeciak S; Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network (EMShockNet) Investigators. JAMA 2010 Jun 2;303(21):2165-71. Article...