Therapeutic hypothermia does not improve arrest outcome
A paper published today represents to me what’s great about science. I am impressed with those investigators who had the […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, ICU, PHARM, Resus
November 2013
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Double balloon pump fail
Two recent trials question the ongoing use of intra-aortic balloon pumps: in patients with acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock […]
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Beta blockers potentially beneficial in septic shock
Counterintuitive as it sounds, this is pretty cool. I blogged about these guys before when they published their findings on […]
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Colloids again: still no benefit.
It’s nice to have big randomised trials to guide critical care practice. The age-old crystalloid/colloid debate (is that still going?) […]
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Prehospital ECLS – it's happening
Patients with refractory (>30 mins) cardiac arrest underwent prehospital cannulation for extracorporeal life support in a French feasibility study. A […]
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Hyperchloraemia and mortality
Here’s something to add to the pile of data cautioning us to think before we acidify patients with saline. A […]
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SMACC Gold Call for Abstracts
A reminder that the closing date for abstracts for the SMACC Gold conference is Friday 22nd November 2013. Why should […]