I covered the 2015 version of meta-analysis back in April when I couldn't get my hands on this one, the 2018 version. I appreciate the Cochrane Library for making this free. You could get to it from my website. The last time I posted about Lidocaine was in April when I had fewer than 1500 …
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Ketamine & Catecholamine-dependent Heart Failure: Be Careful
The Ketamine kick continues! I am not going to pretend I knew everything about everything as I've created this page over the last several months. People who walk around saying things like they were born with that knowledge sometimes need to be checked. We all had that one eye-opening day where it was like, "(explicative) …
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Magnesium for Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Patients?
This is cool, really cool. We need more data, but this is a great start. I would not call this the most robust study I have ever seen regarding the care of patients in the intensive care unit. I learned a lot of basic science from reading the introduction as well as discussion on this …
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