PHARM – Page 11

Simple emergency haemorrhage control

Cliff / March 13, 2012

I had the honour of attending trauma rounds with leading South African trauma surgeons today at Groote Schuur Hospital in […]

Cliff / March 4, 2012

This study raises an important issue – how do we keep patients with major trauma warm on the way to […]

Cliff / March 3, 2012

A post hoc reanalysis was performed on a 2009 JAMA paper comparing patients randomised to receive or not receive prehospital […]

Cliff / February 28, 2012

Intramuscular midazolam is at least as safe and effective as intravenous lorazepam for the prehospital management of status epilepticus. In […]

Cliff / February 27, 2012

This is of interest to those of us in retrieval medicine, for logistic reasons: an infusion of heparin can be […]

Cliff / February 25, 2012

I promised to put some summary notes on the site for those who attended my talk on ‘The REAL Shocked […]

Cliff / February 24, 2012

Many European and Australasian emergency medical services deploy physicians to the scene. In order to facilitate consistent data reporting and […]

Cliff / February 12, 2012

More evidence that the obsession with cervical collars is founded on dogma rather than science Background All trauma patients with […]

Cliff / February 8, 2012

An interesting study from Germany examined prehospital thoracostomy tube (TT) placement by physicians working in the field. Of 69 patients […]

Cliff / February 5, 2012

In hospital, the detection of cardiac standstill with ultrasound predicts a fatal outcome from cardiac arrest with a high degree […]