Transtracheal airways in kids. Well, pigs' kids anyway
Ever had to do a surgical airway in a child? Thought not. They’re pretty rare. Bill Heegaard MD from Henepin […]
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Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine
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Externally rotate leg for femoral vein access
Want to access the femoral vein? Externally rotate the leg at the hip and things might be a bit easier. […]
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Echo for cardiac arrest outcome prediction
A meta-analysis of studies evaluation transthoracic echo as a means of predicting return of spontaneous circulation in cardiac arrest (ROSC) […]
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Aeromedical retrieval: invasive vs noninvasive blood pressure
The chaps from the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service in the UK compared invasive (IABP) and non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurements […]
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A whole bunch of trauma guidelines
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma has published a number of helpful evidence-based guidelines for trauma management, and […]
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Prehospital ketamine analgesia
A prospective open-label randomised controlled trial in prehospital patients receiving morphine for traumatic pain compared intravenous ketamine with additional morphine. […]
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Needle decompression: it's still not going to work
A pet topic that keeps coming up here is management of tension pneumothorax. Plenty of studies demonstrate that traditionally taught […]
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Don't bronchodilators work in infants?
Inpatient paediatric teams can be scornful when bronchodilators are given by ED staff to wheezing infants, correctly referring to the […]
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What's with all the chloride? An assault on salt
I continue to be bewildered at my ED colleagues’ overwhelming preference for 0.9% saline as a resuscitation fluid regardless of […]
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What is 'hypotension' in penetrating trauma?
I previously noted an article demonstrating that a ‘lowish’ – as opposed to a low – systolic blood pressure is […]