Helicopters and trauma: systematic review
In the midst of reconfiguring its trauma systems, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service needed to evaluate the cost effectiveness […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
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Paediatric airway gems
Dr Rich Levitan has made an enormous contribution to the science and practice of emergency airway management, as his bibliography […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
RV involved in AMI more often than you think
We know that inferior STEMI may be complicated by right ventricular involvement, which is why I whack a V4R lead […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus
Improved survival with modified CPR
A large randomised controlled trial1 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients compared standard CPR with CPR augmented by two modifications: active […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Open thoracostomy
Not a new paper to cite here, just a collection of resources that refer to open thoracostomy in trauma. A […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Sux vs Roc in ED RSI
Suxamethonium and rocuronium were compared in a database of prospectively recorded cases of RSI in the emergency department. A total […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, Resus
Algorithm for Body Packers
‘Mules’ or body packers are people who transport illegal drugs by packet ingestion into the gastrointestinal tract. A large study […]
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Hypothermia and hypokalaemia
We all like to treat selected post cardiac arrest patients with hypothermia now, but isn’t hypothermia associated with a drop […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus
Body position in poisoning
You come across a patient in the community who has taken an overdose of pills. The ambulance is on its […]
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Bleeding Tracheostomy
Adapted from the UK Intensive Care Society’s ‘Standards for the care of adult patients with a temporary tracheostomy‘ Bleeding from […]