Resus – Page 29

Steroids for trauma

Cliff / June 7, 2011

A French study on adult patients intubated for multiple trauma assessed the effect of a one week course of stress-dose […]

Acute Med, All Updates, Resus

Erythropoietin for STEMI

Cliff / June 6, 2011

In STEMI patients, intravenous erythropoietin within 4 hours of PCI did not reduce infarct size and was associated with higher […]

All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma

RSI complications increase with intubation difficulty

Cliff / June 5, 2011

A substudy of a large randomised controlled trial comparing etomidate with ketamine for RSI in the pre-hospital environment, emergency department, […]

All Updates, Kids, PHARM, Resus

Infant CPR causing rib fractures

Cliff / June 4, 2011

An increase in rib fractures was observed at autopsy in infants who had undergone CPR, which is temporally related to […]

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Drugs in cardiac arrest – guess what works?

Cliff / June 2, 2011

Just like epinephrine (adrenaline), amiodarone does not increase survival to hospital discharge in cardiac arrest patients. I doubt his will […]

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Single bag for adults and kids

Cliff / June 1, 2011

A nice idea – using a single adult self-inflating bag for the resuscitation of adult and paediatric patients, marked to […]

All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma

Decompressive craniectomy for high ICP head trauma

Cliff / May 31, 2011

Bilateral decompressive craniectomy for severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and intracranial hypertension that was refractory to first line therapies did […]

All Updates, Kids, Resus