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Trent Wray, MD 12/13/13 Trent Wray, MD 12/13/13

A Crack in the Ice? An In-Depth Breakdown of the TTM Trial

Like many other Emergency Medicine residencies, we took the time in our last Journal Club to break down the Targeted Temperature Management Article. There is tons out there in the #FOAMed space about this trial. And, one of our 4th year residents, Dr. Trent Wray, took some extra time to break down the article in gory detail and put it into the context of the previously published literature.

Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed 10/18/13 Jeffery Hill, MD M.Ed 10/18/13

The Basics of Evidence Based Clinical Practice - Asking Good Questions

Evidence Based Clinical Practice (EBCP) is a way to bring the sometimes obtuse world of evidence based medicine to the bedside. Instead of getting lost in p-values, ANOVA, student t-tests, multivariate logistic regressions, EBCP approaches evidence based medicine always through the lens of a patient under a clinician's care. It is a process that starts with asking carefully crafted questions and efficiently searching for answers to those questions. Subsequent analysis of the articles found in the clinician's searching seeks to answer: are the results valid? what are the results? and finally, how can one apply the results to patient care?

In this short video, we go through the crucial initial step of the process: asking a question. Success in asking answerable, well crafted questions begets successful search strategies.