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Emergency Medicine Literature’s Top Practice-Changing Articles

By Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS | on August 9, 2016 | 1 Comment
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Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS

Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS, is an emergency physician and informatician with Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the Annals of Emergency Medicine podcast co-host and Journal Club editor and can be found on Twitter @emlitofnote.

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One Response to “Emergency Medicine Literature’s Top Practice-Changing Articles”

  1. August 23, 2016

    Charles A. Pilcher MD FACEP Reply

    http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5df972fc#page-1
    The above meta-analysis by Meurer et al concludes that CT alone is insufficient to R/O SAH. Still, the points made in reference 8 by Dubosh et al. spin the story only slightly differently. The best solution: Think, document your thoughts and give good discharge instructions if/when you send someone home when SAH was in your differential.

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