"Procedures"...
Level 1 evidence:
Early defibrillation for cardiac arrest
High quality CPR for cardiac arrest
Regional anesthesia preoperatively for hip fracture.
Anesthesia itself for hip fracture.
Early surgical intervention for unstable intertrochanteric hip fractures
Early radiologic imaging for suspected intracranial hemorrhage
Evacuation of intracranial hemorrhage causing cerebellar compression and neurologic deterioration
Placement of cardiac pacemaker for 3rd degree AV block with periods of asystole
Placement of pacemaker for 2nd degree AV block with symptomatic bradicardia
Placement for AICD for recurrent sustained VT
Placement for AICD for cardiac arrest due to VF or VT not due to a reversible cause
okay im bored. let me know if there is a specialty you want looked at for Level 1 evidence, and ill post, when I get interested again
I clearly said 5 PROCEDURES MOST COMMONLY done in medicine. You have listed things like CPR, Radiological Imaging, etc.
I agree that Trauma medicine and possibly pacemakers for very specific causes have level one evidence.
1) There is no level 1 evidence for CPR at all outside of Defibrillation for VF. There is actually no evidence for epinephrine or any of the routine drugs given in CPR. Here is the level of "evidence" listed for CPR:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK349834/ Not most of it is level 3.
2) Intracranial evacuation and trauma medicine have level one evidence I would argue. However, ICH surgeries are very uncommon compared to fusions, stents, CABGs, common ortho procedures, etc. I wouldn't really place that procedure even in the top 20 procedures that are MOST COMMONLY done in medicine.
3) AICD for the specific measures you listed is basically the only common procedure you have named. However, many are placed for conditions without evidence or at ages that have proven to not be cost effective, so it is far over utilized.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140128/news/301289915
You're "bored" because your reading comprehension skills are extremely poor and you have NOT proven your case.
My argument is thus: If level one evidence was applied to the vast majority of the MOST COMMON procedures implemented in America, there would be essentially no procedural medicine. Less than 5% of so of PROCEDURAL MEDICINE that is COMMONLY done could be justified by using level 1 evidence.
Also, even for procedures with "level one evidence", this is only for a very SPECIFIC reason, with many of the procedures being performed outside of this specified indication that is given for level one designation.
For instance, if a study shows that TKR has level one evidence for HEALTHY 60 year old active patients with few/no comorbidity but approximately 95% of these surgeries are performed on obese patients, smoking patients, >75 year old patients, immobile patients, etc that weren't studied, I consider that procedure to effectively be lacking in level one evidence for the VAST MAJORITY of cases the procedure is done.