Sorting ABCD issues pre-hospital
Prospectively collected data on 727 major trauma patients from a Portugese trauma centre registry enabled the comparison of mortality between […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Acute Med, All Updates
Normal ECG still doesn't rule out PE
ECGs from a prospective study of patients in the ED with suspected pulmonary embolism were studied to identify the relative […]
Acute Med, All Updates
Atypical chest pain renders AMI more likely
A prospective study of 796 ED patients with suspected cardiac chest pain assessed the value of individual historical and examination […]
Fascinomata
3D without the glasses
This new device uses 5 LCD screens and motion parallax to give the illusion of contained 3D objects when you […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Spine immobilisation in penetrating trauma
In a retrospective study of 45,284 penetrating trauma patients, unadjusted mortality was twice as high in the 4.3% of patients […]
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A human suction unit for choking
A case is described of a 12 month old who completely obstructed her airway from an inhaled plastic ketchup container. […]
All Updates, Resus
Win with the chin
Medical students and junior doctors were successfully taught correct airway management positioning for intubation on a manikin when told to […]
All Updates, Kids
Extreme white cell counts
Febrile children aged three months to three years with a white cell count over 25000/mm3 and fever were compared with […]
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NIV in chest trauma
ICU patients with thoracic trauma who had no other indication for intubation than marked hypoxaemia (pO2/FiO2 < 200 mmHg) were […]
Acute Med, All Updates
A smaller dose of tPA in PE
A prospective open label randomised controlled trial from China compared two doses of r-tPA for massive or submassive PE. 50 […]