Louisa in London – Prehospital Lessons from LTC2015
The London Trauma Conference remains up there on my list of ‘must go’ conferences to attend. It marks the end […]
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London Cardiac Arrest Symposium 2014
The focus of the entire day is cardiac arrest and this is the second day of the London Cardiac Arrest […]
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London Trauma Conference Day 2
London Trauma Conference 2013 – Day 2 by Dr Louisa Chan So I find myself torn today: do I join […]
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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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Avoiding intubation in ARDS with awake ECMO
A letter in Intensive Care Medicine by Hoeper and colleagues from Hannover describes a small case series of six ARDS […]
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ECMO for paediatric cardiac arrest
The Taiwanese are at it again with their extracorporeal life support. This time, they report their outcomes in children who […]
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Surgical treatment for acute massive pulmonary embolism
A recent paper reminds us that surgery is an option in the management of massive pulmonary embolism(1), to be considered […]
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
You have a patient in cardiac arrest who has had excellent resuscitation from the point of collapse, and who has […]
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Circulatory support in cardiogenic shock
An editorial1 reviewing options for circulatory support in patients with cardiogenic shock argues that traditional inotrope therapy may be replaced […]
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Pre-hospital ECMO
Two cases are reported of the pre-hospital institution of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients in cardiac arrest. One […]