British military physicians reported the outcomes of patients sustaining penetrating neck injury from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Three quarters […]
Patients admitted to a level 1 trauma centre with traumatic brain injury whose end-tidal CO2 was kept with the Brain […]
Some persist in thinking and teaching that the ‘vasopressor’ noradrenaline (norepinephrine) increases mean arterial pressure (MAP) simply by increasing systemic […]
In many UK hospitals patients referred to hospital by their family doctors may bypass the emergency department (ED) and be […]
A Norwegian randomised controlled trial over five years compared out-of-hospital nontraumatic cardiac arrest outcomes between ACLS protocols with and without […]
In both adults and children, abdominal distension (which may be massive in children) may be a sign of tension pneumothorax. […]
In a single centre observational study over 10 years of patients undergoing acute PCI of the left anterior descending (LAD) […]
The American College of Emergency Physicians has conducted an evidence review and issued a policy regarding two critical issues surrounding […]
This short cut review in the Best Bets format attempted to answer the question: “is cervical spine protection always necessary […]
New guidelines from the (UK) College of Emergency Medicine are available at http://www.collemergencymed.ac.uk by going to he Clinical Effectiveness Committee […]
