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The Case of the Incidental Bystander Continues

February 1, 2019 by Rory Spiegel 3 Comments

In October 2016 the Emergency Medicine community was faced with the publication of the now infamous PESIT trial, and the symbolic wrench its authors carelessly tossed into the already indecisive diagnostic work up of patients presenting to the Emergency Department following a syncopal event1. Published in the NEJM, Prandoni et al enrolled patients who were admitted […]

EM Nerd-The Case of the Diagnostic Absurdity

February 14, 2018 by Rory Spiegel 15 Comments

Is it just me or have we lost our collective minds? A recent trial published in JAMA, by Freund et al (1), illustrates just how far our diagnostic psychosis has progressed. The authors conducted a crossover cluster–randomized non-inferiority trial examining a strategy utilizing the pulmonary embolism rule out criteria (PERC) rule to rule out pulmonary […]

EM Nerd-The Case of the Shadowy Spector

March 24, 2017 by Rory Spiegel 10 Comments

The shadow of the long-term sequelae of submassive pulmonary emboli has stalked the hearts and minds of Emergency Physicians. The use of thrombolytics to prevent these ramification has previously been supported primarily with surrogate data, physiological reasoning and communal anecdotal experience. Thrombolytics for submassive pulmonary emboli have failed to demonstrate an improvement in short-term mortality […]

EM Nerd-An Addendum to the Case of the Incidental Bystander Part II

December 13, 2016 by Rory Spiegel Leave a Comment

Recently I wrote a post discussing overdiagnosis in the workup for pulmonary embolism (PE). In it we discussed a recently published paper, the RESPECT-ED trial. Shortly after posting I was contacted by the lead author, Dr. David Mountain, with a number of comments and concerns on how the trial was represented. I have included it […]

EM Nerd-The Case of the Incidental Bystander Part II

December 8, 2016 by Rory Spiegel 2 Comments

The existence of overdiagnosis in the pursuit of pulmonary embolism (PE) is undeniable. But the burden of clinically insignificant PEs diagnosed by our current hypersensitive, zero-miss culture is less apparent. The authors of a recent article ironically entitled RESPECT-ED, attempted to quantify the role in which overdiagnosis plays in the current incidence of PE. Recently […]

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