The myth of ketamine and head injury
A literature review addresses the myth that ketamine is contraindicated in head injured patients. They summarise articles from the 1970’s […]
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Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine
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Optimum depth of neonatal chest compressions
A retrospective study of infant chest CT scans using mathematical modelling and a number of assumptions suggests that neonatal CPR […]
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Hospital bypass for cardiac arrest?
A Japanese study of over 10,000 patients demonstrated improved neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who were taken to […]
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Distance to hospital did not affect arrest survival
In a study of over 7500 patients with cardiac arrest transported by EMS in the United States, transport distance was […]
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Current Controversy in RSI
A review article in Anesthesia and Analgesia provides a summary of the literature surrounding RSI controversies. Should a pre-determined dose […]
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Kids need 'proper' CPR if non-cardiac cause of arrest
The American Heart Association recommends cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by bystanders with chest compression only for adults who have cardiac arrests, […]
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2000 vs 2005 VF guidelines: RCT
One of the key changes in international resuscitation guidelines between the 2000 and 2005 has been to minimise potentially deleterious […]
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Battlefield resuscitation
An excellent review of the current British military practice to prevent and treat the acute coagulopathy of trauma shock (ACoTS) […]
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Sorting ABCD issues pre-hospital
Prospectively collected data on 727 major trauma patients from a Portugese trauma centre registry enabled the comparison of mortality between […]
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Spine immobilisation in penetrating trauma
In a retrospective study of 45,284 penetrating trauma patients, unadjusted mortality was twice as high in the 4.3% of patients […]