All Updates – Page 53

Scene times for rural retrieval in Scotland

Cliff / October 30, 2010

The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) provides an aeromedical retrieval service to remote and rural communities in Scotland. They examined […]

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Paediatric arrest outcomes

Cliff / October 29, 2010

A study of out-of-hospital paediatric arrests in Melbourne gives some useful outcome data: overall, paediatric victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest […]

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Ketamine for HEMS intubation in Canada

Cliff / October 28, 2010

Ketamine was used by clinical staff from the The Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Alberta to facilitate intubation […]

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Scene times & penetrating trauma

Cliff / October 27, 2010

An observational cohort study of penetrating trauma patients treated by the Mobile Emergency Care Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark over a […]

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Ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter

Cliff / October 26, 2010

Here’s the abstract from a new study contributing the literature on ED assessment of raised intracranial pressure using ocular ultrasound: […]

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Cirrhotic patients on ICU

Cliff / October 25, 2010

The prognosis of cirrhotic patients with multiple organ failure is not universally dismal. A retrospective French study examined predictive factors […]

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Small bowel obstruction

Cliff / October 25, 2010

When assessed against CT as gold standard, ultrasound diagnosis of small bowel obstruction by emergency physicians compared favourably with abdominal […]

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