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 […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
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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 […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure
Some new guidelines to be aware of are the AHA Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure. Full text is […]
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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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Even the dead exhale CO2
Cardiac arrest patients sometimes have unrecognised oesophageal intubations because clinicians omit capnography, based on the assumption that circulatory arrest leads […]
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How to Be a Hero
I’m not a hero and don’t claim to be, but when I was given this talk to do for the […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Early surgery for intracerebral haemorrhage
To operate or not to operate on patients with an intracerebral haematoma? Deep ones can be tricky and risk damage […]
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GOLDen Educational Opportunity!
SMACC was my all-time favourite conference ever. Its sequel, smaccGOLD, promises to be even better, as you’ll see from […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Beta blockade in sepsis
What do septic patients need if they remain shocked after fluid resuscitation? Catecholamines right? Let’s stimulate some adrenoceptors and support […]