Intranasal ketamine for kids – 1mg / kg?
A small pilot study on a convenience sample of children presenting to the emergency department with acute limb injury pain […]
All Updates, Kids, PHARM, Trauma
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Ultrasound
Predicting volume responsiveness
One of the current Holy Grails of ED critical care is to find a reliable measure of fluid responsiveness in […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Upstairs vs Downstairs: an EPIC Conundrum
A new breed, and new terminology Scott Weingart MD and colleagues have published a discussion paper [1] outlining the role […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Another argument for ED thoracotomy
A team from Los Angeles (including the great Kenji Inaba) has published a study on penetrating cardiac wounds in the […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Cricoid can worsen VL View
It is known that cricoid pressure can hinder laryngoscopic view of the cords during direct laryngoscopy. Using a Pentax-AWS Video […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
Swallow a camera in GI bleed
Two recent studies evaluate the use of a novel ingestable camera to diagnose upper gastrointestinal bleeding in emergency department patients. […]
All Updates, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Identifying the febrile kid who's too tachypnoeic
Body temperature raises heart rate and respiratory rate in kids, potentially affecting our interpretation of these clinical signs. Dutch investigators […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Hypothermia as an inotrope
This small study supports the hypothesis that therapeutic hypothermia can have positive inotropic effects in patients with cardiogenic shock of […]
All Updates, Resus
Beherrsche die Reanimation
The whole purpose behind my career and this blog is to save life. Like most emergency physicians I don’t see […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Kids, Resus
High flow nasal cannula oxygen
Where I work high flow humidified nasal cannula oxygen (HFNC) is used for infants with bronchiolitis and our ICU also […]