The opposite of acute kidney injury?
Prescribing in the critically ill patient can be a challenge due to a number of factors impacting on pharmacology: variable […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Don't ignore the diastolic
Most of us are pretty good at spotting hypotension and activating help or initiating therapy. But ‘hypotension’ in many practitioners’ […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
COPD and heart disease interactions
Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often affect the same patient; in fact, more than one-third […]
Fascinomata
Curiosity Has Landed
Teamwork, imagination, planning, dedication and some good hard science and engineering make me proud to be human
All Updates, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
Is it time to abandon plain radiography in the trauma room?
For patients who will be having a chest CT, perhaps sonography could replace chest radiography in the resus room as […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Size matters when you're sick
A nice example of a difference between elective anaesthesia and critical care practice when it comes to airway management is […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
The Bleeding Trauma Patient
The Bleeding Trauma Patient by Dr Pete Sherren By popular request, Here are the slides from a presentation given by […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Head injury was not predictive for cervical spine injury
Two papers examining the same massive European trauma dataset identify risk factors for spinal injury. The first examined all spinal […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
A better way to tilt pregnant patients?
To alleviate aortocaval compression, it is recommended to tilt pregnant patients into the left lateral tilt position during resuscitation. Aortocaval […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Kids, Resus, Trauma
Life, limb and sight-saving procedures
The challenge of competence in the face of rarity by Dr Cliff Reid FCEM, and Dr Mike Clancy FCEM This […]