Flying Docs and Airways
Flying Doctor Minh Le Cong describes the profile and success rates of emergency endotracheal intubation conducted by the Queensland Royal Flying […]
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PHARM
Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine
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How to give cold saline in the field
Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia might be a good thing, but there may be difficulties in achieving it if the 4 degrees […]
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Inadequate pre-hospital needle thoracostomy
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of inadequate needle chest thoracostomy in the prehospital setting in […]
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End tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest
Measuring end-tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest patients is helpful for confirming tracheal tube placement assessing the effectiveness of chest compressions […]
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Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia
A Czech study demonstrated effective pre-hospital therapeutic cooling of post-cardiac arrest patients using fairly modest amounts of intravenous saline at […]
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Better outcomes with conventional CPR
A very large nationwide Japanese observational study examined outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who received CPR from lay rescuers. […]
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Helicopters and trauma: systematic review
In the midst of reconfiguring its trauma systems, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service needed to evaluate the cost effectiveness […]
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Paediatric airway gems
Dr Rich Levitan has made an enormous contribution to the science and practice of emergency airway management, as his bibliography […]
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A French FIRST in pre-hospital medicine
A contribution has been made to the literature supporting physician intervention in some pre-hospital trauma patients, in the form of […]
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Improved survival with modified CPR
A large randomised controlled trial1 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients compared standard CPR with CPR augmented by two modifications: active […]