All Updates – Page 43

EZ-IO in pre-hospital care

Cliff / February 28, 2011

French pre-hospital physicians liked the EZ-IO intraosseous drill, using it for drugs (including rapid sequence intubation drugs) and fluids in […]

All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma

Limits on resuscitative thoractomy in ED

Cliff / February 25, 2011

Eighteen trauma centers contributed ED resuscitative thoracotomy data to a study that commenced enrollment in January 2003. During the ensuing […]

All Updates, Resus, Trauma

Risk factors for cervical spine injury

Cliff / February 25, 2011

Data from the Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) database were analysed to identify epidemiologic and biomechanical risk factors for cervical […]

All Updates, Resus, Trauma

Balloon catheters for haemorrhage control

Cliff / February 24, 2011

Something I keep up my sleeve (not literally) for managing some life-threatening vascular wounds prior to surgery is the use […]

All Updates, Guidelines, Kids

ILCOR neonatal cooling guideline

Cliff / February 23, 2011

On the basis of the published data to date the Neonatal Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation […]

All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus

Difficult tube – Easytube

Cliff / February 21, 2011

French pre-hospital physicians included the Easytube, which is similar to the Combitube, in their difficult airway algorithm. They describe the […]

Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound

Pre-hospital Echo

Cliff / February 21, 2011

Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo on patients with symptoms either of profound hypotension and/or severe dyspnoea/tachypnoea where judged […]

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