Targeted temperature management guidelines
Okay – rather than ‘therapeutic hypothermia’, the recommended phrase now is ‘targeted temperature management’. Several critical care authorities got together […]
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Steroids for sepsis in kids
A small retrospective study suggests adrenal insufficiency is common in kids with septic shock, and that steroid administration in these […]
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Hypovolaemic shock and pre-hospital hypertonic saline
No benefit was shown in a trial of hypertonic saline (with or without dextran) versus 0.9% saline in patients with […]
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Neurologic complications in infective endocarditis
More than half of patients admitted to ICU with left-sided infective endocarditis developed neurologic complications OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical […]
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ACEP policy on PE
The American College of Emergency Physicians has revised its 2003 clinical policy on pulmonary embolism. Among the areas considered […]
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FAST in kids has low sensitivity
The abstract says it all – don’t use FAST to rule out significant abdominal free fluid in kids with blunt […]
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Steroids for trauma
A French study on adult patients intubated for multiple trauma assessed the effect of a one week course of stress-dose […]
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Erythropoietin for STEMI
In STEMI patients, intravenous erythropoietin within 4 hours of PCI did not reduce infarct size and was associated with higher […]
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RSI complications increase with intubation difficulty
A substudy of a large randomised controlled trial comparing etomidate with ketamine for RSI in the pre-hospital environment, emergency department, […]
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Infant CPR causing rib fractures
An increase in rib fractures was observed at autopsy in infants who had undergone CPR, which is temporally related to […]