Category: Publication
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Comparing COVID-19 and influenza
Last week, this paper in Lancet ID generated heated (and mostly negative) discussions on X, but I suspect that selection bias may have had a role in that. What was (and was not) investigated? And how?
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Nebulized amikacin: preventing positive cultures or VAP?
An impressive French study evaluating the effects of nebulized amikacin on the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) brought back old memories and a reminder that science moves slowly.
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Are you safe in a hospital?
What do you see when you think back to hospital wards during the heath of the COVID-19 pandemic? Overcrowded, understaffed, chaos. What would the risk be for hospitalised patients not yet infected with SARS-CoV2 in those days?
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Antibiotics do more than causing resistance
A couple of days ago in a study on continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in children with severe vesicoureteral reflux was published in the NEJM. An international open-label RCT with 292 kids enrolled over a period of (!) 7 years.
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Female surgeons do better!/?
On my way to my 85-year-old dad who suffered from paralytic ileus after laparotomic hemicolectomy, I heard the following news: “Patients from female surgeons have less long-term postoperative complications (including death)“ (see: Wallis et al., JAMA Surg.). Is that what the study really revealed?