During emergency department procedural sedation, some clinicians (myself included) advocate non-invasive capnography for the early detection of apnoea. Others argue […]
Emergency physicians in Cambridge and Ipswich in the UK prospectively documented their echo use in cardiac arrest. Images were easily […]
Over a thousand patients in North America with blunt traumatic head injury and coma who did not have hypovolaemic shock […]
In acute pulmonary embolism, a well-recognised pattern of right ventricular wall motion reported by McConnell is characterised by normal RV […]
Using Poiseuille’s law and standardized gauge sizes, an 18-gauge (g) intravenous catheter (IV) should be 2.5 times faster than a […]
A cadaveric study using a 3-dimensional electromagnetic tracking device to asses cervical motion compared the application of a scoop stretcher […]
One of the dilemmas in selecting appropriate therapy for atrial fibrillation in the emergency situation is determining whether the AF […]
It’s hard to keep track of all new proposed biomarkers that may be useful in the work up of acute […]
An Australian randomised controlled trial assessed the effect of pre-hospital cooling (using 2 litres ice cold Hartmann’s) of post-cardiac arrest […]
