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…
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
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…
Breaking Updates in Critical Care and Stroke
Early this year, two important conferences outside our specialty unveiled a spate of new findings whose impact…
2019 Research Highlights: Seizures, Pulmonary Embolism, Cardiac Arrest, and Sepsis
Each year, the medical evidence piles inexorably higher. Even though it’s literally impossible to keep up, we…
What the Data Say about TXA as for Trauma
Tranexamic acid (TXA) seems to have many uses. But where do we stand on the evidence? The…
Meet Lefamulin, a New Antibiotic for Your Infection Toolkit
In medical school teaching for most of the last half century, the ascendant antibiotic in our armamentarium…
It’s Time to Abandon Fecal Occult Blood Testing in the Emergency Department
If a test result does not impact management of a patient—or, worse, is misleading—should the test even…
Demonic Possession or Autoantibody-Mediated Encephalitis?
A few years ago, a best-selling autobiographical work, Brain on Fire, chronicled one of the first instances…