Best Evidence is to use Bier's Block not Haematoma Block
http://www.bestbets.org/cgi-bin/bets.pl?record=00008
--> But that's a BET, not a GET (G=Good). The BET (Which seems very well
done) is phrased very carefully to say that it's based on the "best evidence
available at the present time ". When you consider how rare it is for
evidence they found to be BLINDED (ONE study), you wonder whether there is a
chance that we have here Bier's-lovers proving their own case.
I can tell you that on most places I've worked it would take longer to find
the Bier's equipment than to do a haematoma block and have the patient back
to a fracturse clinic...
I believe we have here another one of MANY situations where the BEST option
is to have more than one option...
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