2015 Evidence-Based Practice Shock 
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
It showed that the common practice of using drugs to suppress rhythm disturbances (anti-arrhythmics) in patients after heart attack (myocardial infarction) led to higher death rates. CAST shocked the world of cardiology because suppression of rhythm disturbances after MI had been an accepted practice. But our belief was wrong.
EB Medicine
JANUARY 2, 2019
Interestingly, groups have examined outpatient care with 2 days of daily IM ceftriaxone vs inpatient IV antibiotic therapy and they found that there may be a higher than acceptable risk in the outpatient setting as several required eventual admission and one developed septic shock in their relatively small trial.
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