High Frequency Oscillation Trial Results
Here’s a heads up on a major evidence-based medicine event in critical care: the results of two long awaited randomised […]
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New Sepsis Guidelines
The latest update of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines has been released. There’s too much interesting stuff to easily summarise, […]
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Advanced airways and worse outcomes in cardiac arrest
A new study demonstrates an association between advanced prehospital airway management and worse clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest. […]
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Magnificant Flying Machine
Beautiful… from the New Scientist site: “It’s not a bird or a plane: it’s an unusual flying object that propels […]
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Point of care analysis of intraosseous samples
Some good news for remote, rural, prehospital, and retrieval medicine clinicians who rely on point of care testing with the […]
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Lifting the Fogg on ED Intubaton
Fellow retrieval specialist and Royal North Shore Hospital emergency physician Dr Toby Fogg and coauthors have published their audit of […]
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Speeding things up through equipment design
Ever been at a cardiac arrest resuscitation where someone’s opening and closing drawers at great speed but failing to retrieve […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
A study on data from traumatic brain injury patients from the the TARN database examined the prognostic value of various […]
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Decatecholaminization in septic shock
A subset of patients from the 2008 Vasopressin and Septic Shock Trial (VASST) trial had invasive haemodynamic monitoring measurements from […]
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The Resus Room Life Guard
I was lucky to be accompanied through much of my emergency medicine training and specialist work in the UK by […]