Pre-hospital Echo
Image: Pocus (ultrasound) semi-portable by Dr Bowser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound
February 2011
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
The Sichuan Straddle
Image: Ferno Model 35-P stretcher in back of ambulance, EMS Museum, Heritage Village, Kingsville, Ontario, by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Bum crack fluid pump
Military guys are great at coming up with practical solutions. Need to infuse fluid in the field but have no […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Laryngospasm and ketamine
Image: Larynx Willis Gray 1858 681, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons What are the factors associated with laryngospasm in ketamine […]
All Updates, Kids
What's a normal newborn O2 sat?
Maybe they’re not just little adults after all: the normal reference ranges for oxygen saturation in the first few minutes […]
All Updates, Kids, Ultrasound
US determined best LP position
Here ultrasound was used to ascertain the best position for doing a lumbar puncture in kids, where the interspinous space […]
All Updates, Kids
Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Kids, Resus
2J or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation?
Image: Defibrillator Monitor by Ernstl, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons Should we shock with 2J/kg or 4J/kg in Paediatric […]
All Updates, Kids, PHARM
Out of hospital monitoring in kids
I don’t have full text access to the Journal Pediatrics, so I’m not sure what I make of this small […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Pre-hospital / HEMS podcast
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the amazing Scott Weingart, an emergency medicine intensivist who runs the spectacular […]