The REAL Shocked Patient
I promised to put some summary notes on the site for those who attended my talk on ‘The REAL Shocked […]
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Utstein-like template for physician EMS
Many European and Australasian emergency medical services deploy physicians to the scene. In order to facilitate consistent data reporting and […]
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Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
The Brain Trauma Foundation has released updated guidelines on traumatic brain injury in children. Most of the recommendations are Grade […]
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Posterior pericardiocentesis
Dr Emanuele Catena and colleagues report a case of an adult male who presented 7 days post cardiac surgery with […]
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Airway lessons relearned
A UK study examined all out-of-operating room intubations over a one month period in nine hospitals1. Patients whose indication for […]
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Another reason to be skeptical about collars
More evidence that the obsession with cervical collars is founded on dogma rather than science Background All trauma patients with […]
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Prehospital thoracostomy tube misplacement
An interesting study from Germany examined prehospital thoracostomy tube (TT) placement by physicians working in the field. Of 69 patients […]
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Prehospital echo predicts arrest outcome
In hospital, the detection of cardiac standstill with ultrasound predicts a fatal outcome from cardiac arrest with a high degree […]
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Training in prehospital and retrieval medicine
I’ve been too busy to blog literature updates for a couple of weeks since I and my colleagues have been […]
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β-2 agonists could worsen ARDS outcome
A previous study (BALTI-1) suggested β-2 agonists may help in ARDS by reducing extravascular lung water. A randomised trial in […]