Exsanguinating cardiac arrest not always fatal
The British Military has developed a reputation for aggressive pre-hospital critical care including (but not limited to) the use of […]
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Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine
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Trauma mortality and systolic BP
Here’s some further evidence that a ‘lowish’ – as opposed to a low – systolic blood pressure is a reason […]
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Score to predict traumatic coagulopathy
Acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) is present in up to 25% of major trauma patients by the time they arrive in […]
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Still no cardiac arrest survival benefit from epinephrine?
A double blind randomised controlled trial showed significantly better rates of return of spontaneous circulation and hospital admission with the […]
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Pre-hospital ECMO
Two cases are reported of the pre-hospital institution of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients in cardiac arrest. One […]
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Mouth-to-nose breathing
Interesting – mouth to nose breathing was more effective than mouth-to-mouth in simulated resuscitations using anaesthetised, apnoeic patients: BACKGROUND: The […]
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Surgeons and trauma teams
There can be issues associated with calling surgeons to trauma team activations in the ED, including interruption to the surgeon’s […]
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Snakebite Guideline
The Australian Resuscitation Council has released guidelines on snakebite envenomation, and on pressure immobilisation of snakebite wounds. Envenomation Pressure Immobilisation […]
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Open book fractures and ultrasound
For me, this is one of those ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ studies… extending the FAST scan to measure […]
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Effect of physician specialty on pre-hospital intubation success
Researchers from the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service describe the success of pre-hospital laryngoscopy according to the grade and specialty […]