2021’s Literature in Review: TXA, tPA, Fluids, Antibiotics, and Minor Miracles
We come now to the end of 2021, a year of hope, dismay, followed again by hope,…
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
Data Supporting Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest Aren’t So Hot
The idea of cooling survivors from cardiac arrest has a long and storied history. In perhaps the…
Thrombolysis in Stroke Mimics Is Not Harmless
If you have trained in emergency medicine in the past 10 years, thrombolysis for acute stroke is…
Does New IV Urticaria Medication Offer Benefits Over Current Treatments?
Medical news consumers may have noted the arrival of intravenous cetirizine (Quzyttir). This second-generation “nonsedating” antihistamine was…
Should We Use New Blood Test to Rule Out TBI?
Earlier this year, news circulated through typical press release channels regarding U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Insights from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network
Thanks to the tireless work of countless staff and volunteers, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network…
2020 Research Highlights: Cardiology, Intra-Abdominal Infections, Advanced Imaging, and Cerebrovascular Disease
While COVID-19 occupied much of our bandwidth in 2020, new medical literature on other important topics still…
What’s the Best Intervention for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax?
There are always times when our attempts to educate individual patients on evidence-based medicine fall short. This…
Two Studies Show When To Do an Endoscopy and Give Tranexamic Acid
When COVID-19 reached the United States, emergency departments had one of two experiences. In places with large…
COVID-19 Testing: What’s Available, and Each Test’s Pros and Cons
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on April 28, 2020, and was accurate at that time. Because…