Acute care of the medically sick adult
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #2 Occasionally we step out of the resuscitation room feeling like a […]
Towards Excellence in Resuscitation Analysing Difficult Resuscitation Cases #1 A resuscitationist agonises. These words, expressed by Scott Weingart during a […]
I find clinicians are quick to consider sepsis and hypoperfusion/ischaemia as causes of a raised lactate, but slow to include […]
Syncope is a common ED presentation. An ECG is a critical investigation in syncope to identify the cause, including rare […]
You ultrasound the chest of your shocked patient in resus with fluid refractory hypotension. You see fluid around the heart. […]
This talk was the opening plenary given at smacc Chicago. The title they gave me was ‘Advice To A Young […]
The London Trauma Conference remains up there on my list of ‘must go’ conferences to attend. It marks the end […]
Thanks to Rob MacSweeney‘s fantastic Critical Care Reviews I learned of Idarucizumab, a monoclonal antibody fragment that binds the (pesky) […]
The use of inhaled nitric oxide is established in certain groups of patients: it improves oxygenation (but not survival) in […]
Some pectus excavatum patients have a metal ‘Nuss bar’ inserted below the sternum which can make chest compressions more difficult. […]
