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…
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 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…
Studies Test Common Cardiac-Arrest Advanced Life Support Practices
There’s a big difference between patients who are mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is, by…
Medical Expulsive Therapy No Longer Recommended for Ureterolithiasis
It wasn’t so long ago that there was absolute consensus on the use of medical expulsive therapy…