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Sedation for traumatic brain injury

Cliff / December 6, 2011

What are the best sedatives for patients with traumatic brain injury? A systematic review found no evidence that one sedative […]

Cliff / November 21, 2011

Do you have access to thromboelastometry in your Emergency Department? Further research by some of the first discoverers of acute […]

Cliff / November 16, 2011

Atrial fibrillation can occur in the setting of severe sepsis, and often presents a therapeutic conundrum for critical care physicians, […]

Cliff / November 12, 2011

The British Thoracic Society / SIGN Guidelines on asthma have been updated for 2011. There don’t seem to be any […]

Cliff / November 8, 2011

This paper is an excellent review article citing the cogent relevant evidence for optimal preoxygenation prior to RSI in the […]

Cliff / November 5, 2011

I enjoyed a paper from Critical Care Medicine this month which relates to a major bugbear of mine: the prescription […]

Cliff / November 1, 2011

The painful dogma of “GCS ≤8 = intubate” is nicely challenged by the A&E Academic Unit at Prince of Wales […]

Cliff / October 27, 2011

Patients with acute exacerbations of asthma randomised to receive high concentration oxygen therapy showed a greater rise in CO2 than […]

Cliff / October 26, 2011

Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has announced the withdrawal of its severe sepsis drug activated protein C, or drotrecogin alfa (proprietary […]

Cliff / October 22, 2011

Patients with severe sepsis and an elevated lactate who appear to be normotensive had a mortality similar to those presenting […]