Prone ventilation in ARDS
Prone ventilation can improve refractory hypoxaemia in ARDS but its effects on mortality have not been impressive in some studies […]
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Extracorporeal CPR
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during inhospital cardiac arrest has been attempted to improve the […]
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Better outcomes with conventional CPR
A very large nationwide Japanese observational study examined outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who received CPR from lay rescuers. […]
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Cervical spine guideline
The UK College of Emergency Medicine has produced guidelines on the management of cervical spine injury in the ED Since […]
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Helicopters and trauma: systematic review
In the midst of reconfiguring its trauma systems, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service needed to evaluate the cost effectiveness […]
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Paediatric airway gems
Dr Rich Levitan has made an enormous contribution to the science and practice of emergency airway management, as his bibliography […]
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A French FIRST in pre-hospital medicine
A contribution has been made to the literature supporting physician intervention in some pre-hospital trauma patients, in the form of […]
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RV involved in AMI more often than you think
We know that inferior STEMI may be complicated by right ventricular involvement, which is why I whack a V4R lead […]
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Improved survival with modified CPR
A large randomised controlled trial1 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients compared standard CPR with CPR augmented by two modifications: active […]
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Open thoracostomy
Not a new paper to cite here, just a collection of resources that refer to open thoracostomy in trauma. A […]