Vasoactive drugs in cardiogenic shock
I’m always on the look-out for evidence to guide vasoactive drug therapy, an area where much dogma is spouted by […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Thrombolysis for PE after limb surgery
A patient develops shock and dyspnoea on the orthopaedic ward after a total knee replacement and massive pulmonary embolism is […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Disposable flexible intubating scope
There is now a single use flexible intubating device that compares favourably with conventional fibreoptic devices. It does not have […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Remifentanil for awake intubation
Awake fibreopic intubation (AFOI) is indicated in a subgroup of critically ill patients in whom RSI is contraindicated due to […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Saving mothers' lives
The eighth Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the UK investigates the deaths of 261 women who […]
Fascinomata
Get some perspective
How’s your sense of the scale of the universe? Where do you fit in size-wise compared with, say, a galaxy […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Military vascular injury to the torso is deadly
Outcomes are described for military personnel with vascular injury sustained in Afghanistan and Iraq. BACKGROUND: Military injuries to named blood […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU
Extracorporeal liver support in acute liver failure
Critically ill patients may receive cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal support, but systems that perform some of the functions of the […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
CHEST study to evaluate starch
No results to report here, just a heads up that the CHEST study is underway: a randomised controlled trial of […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Hyperbaric O2 for the sick and the well with CO poisoning
A French study, large by hyperbaric oxygen trial standards, did not confirm that hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves recovery from pure […]