Neonatal Emergencies
‘THE MISFITS’ is a popular mnemonic to assist in identifying the cause of critical illness in the neonatal period. T […]
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December 2009
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Failure to Thrive
Infants whose weight does not increase as normally expected or those who lose weight should be investigated for four different […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Best way to insert NG tube in intubated patients
A randomised controlled trial on 200 anaesthetised, tracheally intubated adults compared four methods of nasogastric tube placement, looking at success […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Thoracostomy in blunt traumatic arrest
37 patients with blunt traumatic cardiac arrest underwent attempted resuscitation by a HEMS crew over a four year period. Chest […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Not such a B.I.G. success in the field?
Success rates with the bone injection gun were 71% (10 out of 14) in children <16 years and 73% (19 […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Ballistic penetrating neck injury and the risk of immobilisation
British military physicians reported the outcomes of patients sustaining penetrating neck injury from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Three quarters […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Prehospital Hypocapnia and Poor Outcome After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Patients admitted to a level 1 trauma centre with traumatic brain injury whose end-tidal CO2 was kept with the Brain […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Effect on noradrenaline on tissue oxygen delivery
Some persist in thinking and teaching that the ‘vasopressor’ noradrenaline (norepinephrine) increases mean arterial pressure (MAP) simply by increasing systemic […]
Acute Med, All Updates
MAU faster than wards, but slower than ED
In many UK hospitals patients referred to hospital by their family doctors may bypass the emergency department (ED) and be […]
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No benefit from drugs in pre-hospital cardiac arrest
A Norwegian randomised controlled trial over five years compared out-of-hospital nontraumatic cardiac arrest outcomes between ACLS protocols with and without […]