Introducing EM Basic Essential Evidence- The Rivers Sepsis Study
Posted: August 20, 2012 Filed under: Podcasts 2 Comments »Introducing EM Basic Essential Evidence- your boot camp guide to emergency medicine literature. Each episode will review an important emergency medicine article from the ground up. We’ll review the study’s design, basic statistics, results, and wrap it up with some analysis to help you understand the study and how to put it into your everyday practice. The goal here is to provide a guide through the emergency medicine literature so you can read and understand the “must know” studies out there.
This is also the re-launch of EM Basic to a weekly podcast format. Every monday morning, a new episode will be uploaded to start the week. Each week will alternate between a regular review episode and an essential evidence episode. For the essential evidence episodes, I will try to split up the episodes each month- one episode on a landmark article and one episode on a newer article that is making the rounds. I have a list of articles that I will be talking about but if there are any studies out there that you think I should cover, email me at steve@embasic.org.
For this first episode, we’ll talk about the famous Rivers sepsis study that started the push to early goal directed therapy for sepsis in the ED. Although I talked about this study a lot on the sepsis podcast a while back, we’ll talk more in depth about the study so you can really understand it.
Rivers NEJM Sepsis Study- website link (free full text)
Rivers NEJM Sepsis Study- PDF (direct download)
EM Basic Essential Evidence podcast- Rivers Sepsis NEJM
Fantastic idea. I don’t know how many times I’ve Googled “Articles every medical student should read for so-and-so rotation.” Looking forward to all of these in the weeks to come.
Rick
Thanks for the comment and I’m glad that you like the new feature. Honestly, I am not sure why someone hasn’t done this before (but thinking about it- why hasn’t someone done EM Basic before as well?). I have to give some of the credit to two interns at my program who asked me for an EM reading list just before I graduated. I hope the new episodes and the articles list (to be published soon) are helpful.
By the way- I’m a big fan of all your Medscape articles. Having been an EMT I have encountered many of the situations you have written about. You’ve got a gift for writing- keep up the good work!
Steve