Flying Docs and Airways
Flying Doctor Minh Le Cong describes the profile and success rates of emergency endotracheal intubation conducted by the Queensland Royal Flying […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Resus
Life-saving medicine
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
How to give cold saline in the field
Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia might be a good thing, but there may be difficulties in achieving it if the 4 degrees […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
Inadequate pre-hospital needle thoracostomy
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of inadequate needle chest thoracostomy in the prehospital setting in […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
End tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest
Measuring end-tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest patients is helpful for confirming tracheal tube placement assessing the effectiveness of chest compressions […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Kids, Resus
UK children sedation guideline
Despite the huge number of articles in the literature on paediatric sedation, one still encounters acrimonious debates about the appropriateness […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Propofol and the heart
I don’t normally blog about animal studies, but on reading a review of recent(-ish) shock research I was interested in […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia
A Czech study demonstrated effective pre-hospital therapeutic cooling of post-cardiac arrest patients using fairly modest amounts of intravenous saline at […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Extracorporeal CPR
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during inhospital cardiac arrest has been attempted to improve the […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
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. […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Resus, Trauma
Cervical spine guideline
The UK College of Emergency Medicine has produced guidelines on the management of cervical spine injury in the ED Since […]