by Prince Asare-Agbo | Oct 30, 2025 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Hematology, Resuscitation
Blood tests (especially complete blood counts and coagulation markers) are some of the most commonly ordered investigations in both the emergency department and the hospital at large. It’s important for us as emergency physicians to have an excellent understanding of...
by Alie Wudwud, Hans Rosenberg, Christian Vaillancourt | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured, Journal Club, Neurosurgery, Trauma
Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 4/5 Taccone FS, et al. JAMA. 2024 Nov 19;332(19):1623-1633. Question and Methods: This multicenter, randomized trial aimed to determine the optimal hemoglobin transfusion threshold in patients with acute brain injury, comparing a...
by Suzanne Boroumand, Hans Rosenberg, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy | May 31, 2024 | Cardiology, Hematology, Journal Club
Methodology: 4/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Carson JL, et al. N Engl J Med. 2023 Dec 28;389(26):2446-2456. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2307983. Questions and methods: This multicenter, open-label, RCT of 3604 patients with MI with anemia compared 30-day all-cause mortality and...
by Daniel Beamish, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Jul 25, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, Pre-Hospital, Resuscitation, Trauma
There was a significant amount of pre-hospital research published in 2018; many trials were that will no doubt inform future guidelines and change practice. This post seeks to look at some of the historical features of prehospital research and give us a road map for...
by emottawa | Jan 30, 2017 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Jairath V, et al. Lancet. 2015 Jul 11;386(9989):137-44 Abstract Link This open label, cluster randomized feasibility trial based in six university hospitals in the United Kingdom...
