An interesting animal study examined the techniques recommended in basic choking management algorithms for foreign body airway obstruction (chest and […]
If you’re in the United Kingdom on Thursday 21st March please consider watching BBC’s Horizon program at 9pm on BBC2. […]
I made up a word a while ago: “dogmalysis”. It refers to the dissolution of authoritative tenets held as established […]
Ever heard anyone spout dogma along the lines of: “it’s a traumatic cardiac arrest – resuscitation is futile as the […]
I want to clarify some terminology I use on a day-to-day basis, which is now so ingrained in my vocabulary […]
A large single-centre study in an academic tertiary care center emergency department (where residents perform most of the intubations) examined […]
The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has published an update to its Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway. You […]
Two randomised controlled trials have been published which compare endovascular stroke treatments with intravenous tPA. Both the American Interventional Management […]
I ‘jumped ship’ from etomidate to ketamine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in sick patients about seven years ago. Good […]
