The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

12/29/2025

ANDROMEDA-Shock-2:
Cap Refill Time for Personalized Sepsis Treatment
https://thesgem.com/2025/12/sgem498-andromeda-cap-refill-time-for-personalized-sepsis-treatment/

12/28/2025

Is a hierarchical composite outcome just putting lipstick on a pig? Find out more on this week's episode of the Skeptics' Guide to Emergency Medicine. We do a structured critical appraisal of the ANDROMEDA-SHOCK-2 Trial.

https://thesgem.com/2025/12/sgem498-andromeda-cap-refill-time-for-personalized-sepsis-treatment/

12/28/2025

Cap Refill Time for Personalized Sepsis Treatment: ANDROMEDA-Shock-2
https://thesgem.com/2025/12/sgem498-andromeda-cap-refill-time-for-personalized-sepsis-treatment/

12/28/2025

After working the ER on the 24th, 25th & 26th, I had time to visit my mom tonight.
She wants to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

12/25/2025

Santa’s little helpers are in the ER ready to care for you, your family or friends. Disease, illness & injury don’t take holidays.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

12/24/2025

The 12 Days of Christmas the SGEM Gave to Me: How to critically interpret the literature.
https://thesgem.com/2024/12/sgem-xtra-the-12-days-of-christmas-the-sgem-gave-to-me/

12/23/2025

How much science cares whether you "believe in it".

12/22/2025

Does the presence of Batman increase the likelihood that someone offers their seat to a pregnant-appearing woman?
https://thesgem.com/2025/12/sgem497-we-could-be-heroes-just-with-a-little-help-from-batman/

12/20/2025

The Batman Effect - Encouraging Prosocial Behaviour. https://thesgem.com/2025/12/sgem497-we-could-be-heroes-just-with-a-little-help-from-batman/

12/19/2025

Next up on the SGEM: Unexpected events and prosocial behavior - the Batman effect

Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disruptin...

12/19/2025

As the emergency department deals with the anticipated annual respiratory surge that routinely overwhelms our crowded system, the rest of the healthcare system prepares to sign out care between Christmas and New Year's to the ER.