Phentolamine for neurogenic pulmonary oedema
A single case report might not be practice changing, but it’s helpful to know about this option: A patient with […]
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Clotbusting wisdom on tap – your questions answered
The prevention and management of venous thromboembolic disease is a huge topic, which generates questions for emergency, critical care, and […]
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Dobutamine for severe heart failure – more harm than good?
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials showed dobutamine is not associated with improved mortality in heart failure […]
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Colloid volume therapy for critically ill patients
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine has produced a consensus statement on colloid volume therapy for critically ill patients, […]
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Body temperature in anaesthetised HEMS patients
This study raises an important issue – how do we keep patients with major trauma warm on the way to […]
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Epinephrine in cardiac arrest reanalysed
A post hoc reanalysis was performed on a 2009 JAMA paper comparing patients randomised to receive or not receive prehospital […]
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Prehospital IM midazolam for seizures
Intramuscular midazolam is at least as safe and effective as intravenous lorazepam for the prehospital management of status epilepticus. In […]
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Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
I am stunned by the beauty and brilliance of this video by Spanish filmmaker Cristóbal Vila – Inspirations: A Short […]
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Enoxaparin beats heparin for PCI
This is of interest to those of us in retrieval medicine, for logistic reasons: an infusion of heparin can be […]
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Scandinavian Critical Care
If you like the kind of updates posted here at Resus.ME, then check out SCANCRIT. This blog on anaesthesia, intensive […]