New College Ketamine Guideline
The College of Emergency Medicine (UK) has updated its guideline on ketamine sedation in children. The summary is copied below […]
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Guidelines
Guidelines relevant to the critically ill patient
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Tactical Combat Casualty Care
The brave men and women of the military not only risk their lives for us – they also provide a […]
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NICE Alcohol Guidelines
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has produced guidelines on alcohol-related physical complications, including alcohol withdrawal […]
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Post cardiac arrest guideline
A patient is resuscitated from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and is in your emergency department, comatose, with a pulse. You […]
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Guidelines for Clostridium Difficile
Guidelines for preventing, detecting, and treating Clostridium Difficile infection from the Infectious Diseases Society of America have been published. Clinical […]
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STEMI and PCI guidelines
Lots of interesting and up to date information in this thick document from December 2009 Full text is available here […]
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Thoracic Aortic Disease Guidelines
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Thoracic Aortic Disease have been published by a collaboration between a […]
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European Trauma Bleeding Guidelines updated
Update 2013: since this post was written in 2010, new guidelines have been written entitled: “Management of bleeding and […]
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The early management of unstable angina and NSTEMI
The UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence has produced evidence based guidelines on the early management of unstable angina and […]
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2000 vs 2005 VF guidelines: RCT
One of the key changes in international resuscitation guidelines between the 2000 and 2005 has been to minimise potentially deleterious […]