Category: Editorial

For special topics and important trials, we shall produce an accompanying editorial. This will expand upon our usual summaries and systematic critical appraisals. If trials are related, we shall compare these and do our best to put it in the context of our clinical practice.
Evidence-based medicine is both science and art. We will help to explain the numbers and interpret the evidence for your patients.
As always, we invite your comment and opinion – there is rarely one right answer.

TBL at WICS Summer 2019

14 June 2019 Duncan Chambler Editorial Leave a comment

TBL at Wessex Intensive Care Society meeting 2019 #WICS19 It’s a pleasure to be speaking at WICS 2019. I will be producing notes here to support my talk later today. This will include a narrative of my slides, a little more depth of content and links to all the trials. In short, here are my 6 key statements: Video-laryngoscopy is […]

BAOIA Presentation 2018

6 October 2018 Duncan Chambler Editorial Leave a comment

This editorial blog has been written to complement the short presentation delivered by Duncan Chambler at the British Association of Indian Anaesthetists (BAOIA) 2018 conference in Newcastle.

Power and Sample Size

27 April 2018 Imelda Galvin Editorial 2 comments

In this Editorial, Professor Imelda Galvin from Queen’s University in Canada takes us through the details of Power, how it relates to trial sample size, and why it matters.

Steroids in Sepsis

5 January 2018 Steve Mathieu Blog, Editorial 4 comments

In patients with septic shock, do corticosteroids compared to placebo reduce mortality?
This is an editorial blog post in anticipation of the ADRENAL trial results to be presented at #CCR18.

TBL Top 10 for 2017

22 December 2017 Duncan Chambler Editorial Leave a comment

It’s been another big year for research in ICM, EM and Peri-operative Care. What do the TBL editors think are the best trials of 2017?

The 2016 TBL Round Up

23 December 2016 Duncan Chambler Editorial, News Leave a comment

All of us on the editorial team would like to wish our subscribers, followers and readers our very best wishes for this festive season and the year ahead.

We’re taking our usual two week break, and we shall return in 2017 with more #FOAMed.

A Week of POCUS

18 November 2016 Duncan Chambler Editorial Leave a comment

We’ve covered five key papers from a range of researchers with a focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound. This has been complemented by the excellent ‘Introduction to…’ blog posts from Adrian and Segun.