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…
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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...
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…
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…