Oldest observed galaxy
From World News Australia Astronomers said they had snared an image of what may be the oldest galaxy ever seen, […]
Fascinomata
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
A French FIRST in pre-hospital medicine
A contribution has been made to the literature supporting physician intervention in some pre-hospital trauma patients, in the form of […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
RV involved in AMI more often than you think
We know that inferior STEMI may be complicated by right ventricular involvement, which is why I whack a V4R lead […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus
Improved survival with modified CPR
A large randomised controlled trial1 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients compared standard CPR with CPR augmented by two modifications: active […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Open thoracostomy
Not a new paper to cite here, just a collection of resources that refer to open thoracostomy in trauma. A […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Sux vs Roc in ED RSI
Suxamethonium and rocuronium were compared in a database of prospectively recorded cases of RSI in the emergency department. A total […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, Resus
Algorithm for Body Packers
‘Mules’ or body packers are people who transport illegal drugs by packet ingestion into the gastrointestinal tract. A large study […]
All Updates, ICU, Ultrasound
Hole in the head? Don't waste the window!
Zampieri and colleagues from Brazil report the use of brain ultrasound in two ICU patients who had had hemicraniectomies. One […]
Fascinomata
Most detailed image of night sky unveiled
From New Scientist 18:30 11 January 2011 by David Shiga, Seattle It would take 500,000 high-definition TVs to view it […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Hypothermia and hypokalaemia
We all like to treat selected post cardiac arrest patients with hypothermia now, but isn’t hypothermia associated with a drop […]