Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you at how we integrate recent findings from the EM literature into our practice.

So we're going to cover a few so-called landmark articles on medical expulsive therapy for renal colic,

steroids for anphylaxis, pain meds for low back pain, antibiotics for skin abscesses, stuff like that.

Now, being an optimist, I'm constantly searching for EM literature that'll change my practice in a positive way and ultimately improve the care that I deliver.

Yay!

Now, 2015 was a year filled with promising papers, some of which received quite a lot of attention.

Now, I'm not the only one who's biased towards craving a positive paper.

You know, so are the researchers, the journal editors, and the public.

We all want our field to mightily move forward.

So enter Joel Yaffe.

You had to have sexual intercourse at least three times a week.

An EM residency program director at the University of Toronto and an emerged doc who I admire

for his balanced, sensible, and practical approach to appraising the literature.

So in this episode, Dr. Yaffey at UFT's Update in EM conference in Whistler is going to lead us

through a few key articles from the past year and discuss whether they should or rather should not change our practice.

He challenges authors' conclusions and questions whether the findings are relevant to our patients.

This is not going to be simply a why this should change my practice.

I think there are articles here where the authors would maybe like to change your practice

and we'll talk why I think they shouldn't.

And I think the underlying theme is going to be that sometimes you have to look a little bit beneath the surface.

Dr. Yafi is going to start with the now famous revert trial for cardioverting SVT.

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