TIA workup renders ABCD2 unhelpful
ABCD2 is recommended to stratify the risk of stroke in patients presenting to the ED with TIA symptoms. In some […]
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Acute care of the medically sick adult
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Delayed door-to-balloon even with helicopters
For a whole bunch of reasons, patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction who undergo interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention […]
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H1N1 or CAP?
A scoring system composed of clinical, radiological, and laboratory variables purports to distinguish H1N1 influenza virus infection from community acquired […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Nasal cooling method
More data on the RhinoChill device from an in-hospital study of post-cardiac arrest patients in Germany. The RhinoChill device (BeneChill […]
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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 […]
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Testing of Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients
A summary of the literature on low risk chest pain, including history, physical exam, ECG, biomarkers, and investigations such as […]
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CPR on your own? Stay at the head end
In this manikin study, single-rescuer bag-mask ventilation (BMV) with chest compressions was tried in three different positions. Staying at the […]
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Extracorporeal CPR
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during inhospital cardiac arrest has been attempted to improve the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]