Family presence during resuscitation
Families allowed to be present during attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation had improved psychological outcomes at ninety days. Adult family members of […]
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Acute care of the medically sick adult
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Age adjusted D-dimer cut-off values
Age adjusted D-dimer cut-off values (age×10 µg/L) improve specificity without losing sensitivity for venous thromboembolism. This could spare many elderly […]
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Restricting transfusion in upper GI bleeding
Improved outcomes and reduced complications were associated with a restrictive transfusion strategy in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Note that […]
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Pleurodesis for spontaneous pneumothorax?
A Taiwanese study demonstrated a lower recurrence rate when primary spontaneous pneumothoraces requiring drainage received pleurodesis using minocycline(1). However, significantly […]
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Isolated LAFB and outcome
A small study followed up an older cohort of patients with isolated left anterior fascicular block on their ECG (isolated […]
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5 days of steroids for COPD exacerbation
A randomised trial showed 5 days of oral steroid therapy (40 mg prednisone) was non-inferior to 14 days’ duration in […]
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Potential new therapy for acute heart failure
Interesting new drug to know about: Serelaxin, recombinant human relaxin-2. It’s hard to assess the clinical significance of the statistically […]
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Stroke thrombolysis outcomes from registry
Data from a large national stroke registry are reported to show that in patients who received tPA, outcomes were worse […]
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TracMan results
The TracMan trial – a multicentre randomised trial of early vs late tracheostomy in ICU patients – has been published, […]
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Predicting volume responsiveness
One of the current Holy Grails of ED critical care is to find a reliable measure of fluid responsiveness in […]