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Document Details : Title: Evidence-based medicine Author(s): KESTELOOT, Hugo Journal: Acta Cardiologica Volume: 61 Issue: 3 Date: June 2006 Pages: 261-262 DOI: 10.2143/AC.61.3.2014825 Abstract : How much evidence is needed before experiments can be turned into medical practice? Some twenty-five years ago I had to treat a very complex life-threatening arrhythmia. No available drug was known to be a priori successful for treatment of this arrhythmia. I decided to use a promising new anti-arrhythmic drug I had a large experience with but which had never been used in such a setting. I injected the drug and the rhythm returned to normal. This proved that my a priori assumptions about the possible benefit of the treatment were reasonable. |
