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…
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 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!”…
What Happened to Phenylephrine?
In September, a surprising publication by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the efficacy of oral…
Are Opiates Futile in Low Back Pain?
There is no shortage of evidence regarding the harms of opiate use and misuse. With this in…
Gradually Circling Around the GRACE Project’s “Reasonable Practice”
There is no shortage of guidelines, protocols, or quality measures across emergency medicine. Regardless of the domain,…
Dr. Chatbot Will See You Now
If you’re wondering about the hype with chatbots in medicine, perhaps it’s because they’re nothing new: the…
Masks: The Good, the Bad, and Systematic Reviews
At least as important as carving out the time to read new studies, it is important to…