Dogma in Critical Care
Critical Matters
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Confirmation Bias in Clinical Medicine
Confirmation bias keeps popping up as what I see over and over again at the bedside. It may be a way of maybe perpetuating, how would you relate confirmation bias to dogma and its perpetuation in clinical medicine? An obvious one is that we follow the well trusted and tried track and if the patient dies, it's the patient's fault, it's never our fault. The first sort of randomized trial in critical care that truly showed a difference was not overventilating. We can give these suppresses to get to the blood pressure of the patient to their normal level, but there's a whole heap of harm associated with capital A means that we don't necessarily see at the
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