What's a normal newborn O2 sat?
Maybe they’re not just little adults after all: the normal reference ranges for oxygen saturation in the first few minutes […]
All Updates, Kids
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All Updates, Kids, Ultrasound
US determined best LP position
Here ultrasound was used to ascertain the best position for doing a lumbar puncture in kids, where the interspinous space […]
All Updates, Kids
Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Kids, Resus
2J or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation?
Should we shock with 2J/kg or 4J/kg in Paediatric Defibrillation? The answer seems to be ‘we still don’t know’. Don’t […]
All Updates, Kids, PHARM
Out of hospital monitoring in kids
I don’t have full text access to the Journal Pediatrics, so I’m not sure what I make of this small […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Pre-hospital / HEMS podcast
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by the amazing Scott Weingart, an emergency medicine intensivist who runs the spectacular […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma
Plasma:red cell ratios
In some circles, ‘wuntwuntwun’ is in danger of becoming the new dogma of trauma fluid replacement (ie. 1 unit of […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Helicopters between hospitals
More National Trauma Databank analysis coming out in favour of helicopter transport: this time looking at interhospital transfer: Background: Helicopter […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Neck movement in spite of collar
A cadaveric study using an artificially created unstable cervical spine injury has shown marked displacement of the vertebrae when cervical […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, Resus
Testing of Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients
A summary of the literature on low risk chest pain, including history, physical exam, ECG, biomarkers, and investigations such as […]