Twitter Journal Club

I have to admit choosing this week’s #twitjc paper because of a particular annoyance of mine. That annoyance is seeing a patient’s IV fluid rota with litres and litres of 0.9% normal saline written up for days on end. I … Continue reading →

A huge thank you to the wonderful @paedssho for writing this week’s summary – I am currently on a run of seven nights in ED and have handed over the journal club this week to David…. This week finds #twitjc … Continue reading →

Was the methodology of this study appropriate to answer the clinical question? Were the outcomes, both primary and secondary, appropriate? All patients underwent an endoscopy within 6 hours. Are the results of this trial applicable in other centres where patients … Continue reading →

A patient is brought into resus vomiting up fresh red blood. The team jump into action, assessing the patient and diagnosing an upper GI bleed, gaining intravenous access, taking blood samples and taking a sample for a cross-match. Does this … Continue reading →

The Twitter Journal Club returns for 2013 on 20th January and our first paper of 2013 will be…. Transfusion Strategies for Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Look out for the paper summary which will follow very soon and remember to join … Continue reading →

1. Was the methodology of this study appropriate to answer the clinical question? 2. This study was dramatically underpowered & its results combined with the WARFASA trial. Does this affect how we view its results? 3. Is the pooled data … Continue reading →

Go into any medical ward in a hospital, open up all the drug charts in a bay of patients and you will find aspirin prescribed. Aspirin is extremely widely used, I don’t think an oncall has ever gone by in … Continue reading →

After a break #twitjc is coming back very soon….. Tomorrow the details of our return will be announced. In the meantime I need your help. I would love to have some feedback on the journal club and how we could … Continue reading →

1. Is the methodology of this study appropriate to answer the clinical question? 2. Were the outcomes, both primary and secondary, clinically relevant? 3. Does the lack of a placebo in the control group undermine the results of this study? … Continue reading →

This week’s summary is written by the fantastic @paedssho, thank you to him for taking some of my workload away from me (actually more like wrestling it off me, I admit to being a bit of control freak). It is … Continue reading →