Alternative 'universal' plasma donor
The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]
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Updated Difficult Airway Guidelines
The American Society of Anesthesiologists has published an update to its Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway. You […]
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Endovascular stroke treatment
Two randomised controlled trials have been published which compare endovascular stroke treatments with intravenous tPA. Both the American Interventional Management […]
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Ketamine & cardiovascular stability
I ‘jumped ship’ from etomidate to ketamine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in sick patients about seven years ago. Good […]
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High Frequency Oscillation Trial Results
Here’s a heads up on a major evidence-based medicine event in critical care: the results of two long awaited randomised […]
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New Sepsis Guidelines
The latest update of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines has been released. There’s too much interesting stuff to easily summarise, […]
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Lifting the Fogg on ED Intubaton
Fellow retrieval specialist and Royal North Shore Hospital emergency physician Dr Toby Fogg and coauthors have published their audit of […]
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Speeding things up through equipment design
Ever been at a cardiac arrest resuscitation where someone’s opening and closing drawers at great speed but failing to retrieve […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
A study on data from traumatic brain injury patients from the the TARN database examined the prognostic value of various […]
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Decatecholaminization in septic shock
A subset of patients from the 2008 Vasopressin and Septic Shock Trial (VASST) trial had invasive haemodynamic monitoring measurements from […]