Resus – Page 11

The importance of first pass success

Cliff / February 20, 2013

A large single-centre study in an academic tertiary care center emergency department (where residents perform most of the intubations) examined […]

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Alternative 'universal' plasma donor

Cliff / February 19, 2013

The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]

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Updated Difficult Airway Guidelines

Cliff / February 14, 2013

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has published an update to its Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway. You […]

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Endovascular stroke treatment

Cliff / February 10, 2013

Two randomised controlled trials have been published which compare endovascular stroke treatments with intravenous tPA. Both the American Interventional Management […]

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Ketamine & cardiovascular stability

Cliff / February 6, 2013

I ‘jumped ship’ from etomidate to ketamine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in sick patients about seven years ago. Good […]

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New Sepsis Guidelines

Cliff / January 21, 2013

The latest update of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines has been released. There’s too much interesting stuff to easily summarise, […]

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Advanced airways and worse outcomes in cardiac arrest

Cliff / January 20, 2013

A new study demonstrates an association between advanced prehospital airway management and worse clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest. […]

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