Advanced airways and worse outcomes in cardiac arrest
A new study demonstrates an association between advanced prehospital airway management and worse clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest. […]
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Point of care analysis of intraosseous samples
Some good news for remote, rural, prehospital, and retrieval medicine clinicians who rely on point of care testing with the […]
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New STEMI guidelines
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention or fibrinolysis for STEMI? What if you don’t have PCI at your hospital? The new 2013 […]
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Which pelvic compression device is best?
Two popular pelvic compression devices are the SAM Pelvic Sling II and the T-POD®. In a direct comparison 50 health […]
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What happened to HIFU?
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) was hailed as the ‘surgery of the future’ a few years ago(1). As it’s now […]
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Perimortem Caesarean Delivery: Late is Better than Not
“To date, approximately one-third of the women who die during pregnancy remain undelivered at the time of death” Guidelines recommend […]
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London Calling – part 3
Notes from Day 4 of the London Trauma Conference The highlight for me was Mr Jonny Morrison speaking on Resuscitative […]
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London Calling – part 2
Notes from Days 2 & 3 of the London Trauma Conference Day 2 of the LTC was really good. There […]
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London Calling!!
Notes from Day 1 of the London Trauma Conference I’ve always fancied trying my hand at journalism so when this […]
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Reassurance: difficult laryngoscopy in children remains rare
I was taught a useful principle by a paediatric anaesthetist 10 years ago which has proven true in my experience […]