Pre-hospital Echo
Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo on patients with symptoms either of profound hypotension and/or severe dyspnoea/tachypnoea where judged […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
The Sichuan Straddle
I used to see it done on ‘ER’ but never knew people really straddled patients on stretchers doing CPR. Apparently […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Bum crack fluid pump
Military guys are great at coming up with practical solutions. Need to infuse fluid in the field but have no […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Laryngospasm and ketamine
What are the factors associated with laryngospasm in ketamine sedation? A large study was unable to identify specific predictors: Objective: […]
All Updates, Kids
What's a normal newborn O2 sat?
Maybe they’re not just little adults after all: the normal reference ranges for oxygen saturation in the first few minutes […]
All Updates, Kids, Ultrasound
US determined best LP position
Here ultrasound was used to ascertain the best position for doing a lumbar puncture in kids, where the interspinous space […]
All Updates, Kids
Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Kids, Resus
2J or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation?
Should we shock with 2J/kg or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation? The answer seems to be ‘we still don’t know’. Don’t […]
All Updates, Kids, PHARM
Out of hospital monitoring in kids
I don’t have full text access to the Journal Pediatrics, so I’m not sure what I make of this small […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Pre-hospital / HEMS podcast
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the amazing Scott Weingart, an emergency medicine intensivist who runs the spectacular […]