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…
About Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS
Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS, is an emergency physician and informatician at Kaiser Permanente NW, and affiliated with the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. He blogs at Emergency Medicine Literature of Note and can be found on Twitter @emlitofnote.
Posts by Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS
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…
Factor Xa Inhibitor Reversal Agent Is Not Ready for Prime Time
Ever since the release of direct-acting oral anticoagulants, emergency physicians have been tasked with managing their associated…
Clinical Decision Instruments for Identifying Clinically Important Traumatic Brain Injury Necessary?
The year 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research…
10 of the Best Medical Journal Articles from 2018
If anything can be counted on to be constant in this world, it is change. Stacks upon…