Is There Any Way Out for Spinal Epidural Abscess?
Can ESR & CRP reliably rule out acute infectious spinal pathology? A new study explores using these markers to avoid MRI for spinal epidural abscess.
About 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.
Posts by Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS
The AI Legal Trap in Medicine
The legal landscape surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the medical setting remains in a…
What’s in The Drug Pipeline These Days?
A unique aspect of emergency medicine is being on the front lines of clinical care. We are…
2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More
Every year, the hopeless task of keeping up with the medical literature grows even more unattainable. Will…
Settling the Cefepime versus Piperacillin-Tazobactam Debate
If you work in the emergency department, you’re out there in the trenches “suspecting sepsis” on a…
The Latest Research in Neurologic Emergencies
You may have mastered all the latest changes affecting management of sepsis, STEMI, and opiate-use disorder, but…
Tread Cautiously with Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Scenarios
Virtually everyone has experimented with large language models (LLMs) in some fashion. Whether a person is conducting…
Diagnostic Errors, Revisited: Where Do We Go Wrong, and How Can We Change?
It has been well over a year since the controversial publication of the Agency for Healthcare Research…
Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023
Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. “Gotta catch ‘em all!”…