Leadership & experience count in trauma resuscitation
These findings shouldn’t be a surprise – and the authors acknowledge a number of methodological weaknesses in what is essentially […]
All Updates, Resus, Trauma
Uncategorized
An inspiring demonstration of spirit
I can’t imagine what it was like to go through what Fred Ettish went through. I remember being stunned at […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU
Unknown unknowns and pleural effusions
There are plenty of unknowns when it comes to management of pleural effusions on the ICU, which led to a […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, ICU, Resus
Upper GI bleeding guideline update
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has issued updated guidance on the management of acute upper gastrointestinal […]
Podcasts
Resus.ME! Podcast June 2012
I discuss the bad old days of poor training and lack of supervision with emergency physician and retrieval specialist Dr […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Confidential stuff – in hospital cardiac arrests
A new report describes room for improvement in the care of cardiac arrest patients in hospital1. The National Confidential Enquiry […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Ultrasound
Is diastolic worse than systolic dysfunction in sepsis?
Septic myocardial dysfunction is a well recognised contributor to shock in sepsis but for many of us we assume this […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Thrombolytic Therapy in Unstable Patients with PE
Most of us would give strong consideration to giving thrombolytics to patients with massive pulmonary embolism (PE), which is in […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, Resus
Hypotonic Versus Isotonic Fluids After Surgery for Children
Kids in hospital with injury, infection or other illness, and those undergoing the physiological stress of surgery, produce (appropriately) elevated […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus
T waves in V1-V3 were not associated with badness
This long term follow up study showed that T-wave inversions in right precordial leads are not associated with adverse outcome. […]