Confidential stuff – in hospital cardiac arrests
A new report describes room for improvement in the care of cardiac arrest patients in hospital1. The National Confidential Enquiry […]
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Is diastolic worse than systolic dysfunction in sepsis?
Septic myocardial dysfunction is a well recognised contributor to shock in sepsis but for many of us we assume this […]
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Thrombolytic Therapy in Unstable Patients with PE
Most of us would give strong consideration to giving thrombolytics to patients with massive pulmonary embolism (PE), which is in […]
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Hypotonic Versus Isotonic Fluids After Surgery for Children
Kids in hospital with injury, infection or other illness, and those undergoing the physiological stress of surgery, produce (appropriately) elevated […]
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T waves in V1-V3 were not associated with badness
This long term follow up study showed that T-wave inversions in right precordial leads are not associated with adverse outcome. […]
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Nonshockable arrest survival improves with uninterrupted compressions
A study of nonshockable out of hospital cardiac arrest survival showed significant improvement in short- and long-term survival and neurological […]
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Not a pin cushion
This is the daughter of my friend. Avery is only seven months old and has survived a critical illness and […]
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Laryngospasm after Ketamine
A case is reported in Prehospital Emergency Care1 in which an agitated patient (due to mania and alcohol intoxication) received […]
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Phenylephrine vs. Catecholamines and the (rodent) heart
Okay, I don’t normally blog about animal studies, but I thought this would be of interest, particularly to readers of […]
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Lung ultrasound for pneumothorax by paramedics
This UK study showed that paramedics could successfully acquire and identify lung ultrasound images after a two day course. The […]