This post examines five commonly performed investigations (CT in minimal head injury, CXR in chest pain, investigations in Syncope/AFib/Renal Colic) in the Emergency Department (ED) to determine if the evidence exists to support current practice patterns.
KT Evidence Bite: Cardioversion and Thromboembolism
Editor’s note: This is a series based on work done by three physicians (Patrick Archambault, Tim Chaplin, and our BoringEM Managing editor Teresa Chan) for the Canadian National Review Course (NRC). You can read a description of this course here. The NRC brings EM residents from across the Canada together in their final year for a crash course on everything emergency medicine. Since we are a specialty with heavy allegiance to the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine, we thought we would serially release the biggest, …