Journal update monthly top five

This month’s update is by the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals team. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free open-access medical education resources and literature searches. We identified the five most interesting and relevant papers (decided by consensus) and highlight the main findings, key limitations and clinical bottom line for each paper. The papers are ranked as Worth a peek: interesting but not yet ready for prime time. Head turner: new concepts. Game changer: this paper could/should change practice. Biomarkers and their association with bacterial illnesses in hypothermic infants by Holland et al.Topic: sepsis in infantsOutcome rating: worth a peek Serious bacterial infection (SBI) in young infants can present with fever or hypothermia, but differentiating which hypothermic infants will have SBI is challenging. This multicentre retrospective study conducted across four US academic paediatric EDs investigated whether biomarkers could identify SBI in hypothermic...
Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Journal update Source Type: research