London Trauma Conference Day 2
London Trauma Conference 2013 – Day 2 by Dr Louisa Chan So I find myself torn today: do I join […]
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London Trauma Conference 2013
Our inside reporter Dr Louisa Chan provides an update from Day One of the London Trauma Conference: At risk of […]
All Updates, Guidelines, PHARM, Trauma
Guidelines on prehospital drug-assisted LMA insertion
The UK’s Faculty of Prehospital Care has published a number of consensus guidelines in this month’s EMJ Dr Minh Le […]
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Therapeutic hypothermia does not improve arrest outcome
A paper published today represents to me what’s great about science. I am impressed with those investigators who had the […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Colloids again: still no benefit.
It’s nice to have big randomised trials to guide critical care practice. The age-old crystalloid/colloid debate (is that still going?) […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Prehospital ECLS – it's happening
Patients with refractory (>30 mins) cardiac arrest underwent prehospital cannulation for extracorporeal life support in a French feasibility study. A […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Hyperchloraemia and mortality
Here’s something to add to the pile of data cautioning us to think before we acidify patients with saline. A […]
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Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure
Some new guidelines to be aware of are the AHA Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure. Full text is […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Podcasts, Resus
How to Be a Hero
I’m not a hero and don’t claim to be, but when I was given this talk to do for the […]
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Lowering the BP rapidly in ICH
In our retrieval service case reviews, one thing that is that sure to generate discussion is what to do about […]