Pneumonia scores equivalent
Got a favourite assessment tool for classifying the severity of community acquired pneumonia? Two systematic reviews showed no significant differences […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
Resus
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All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Give all sick patients oestrogen?
A thought provoking article in Critical Care Medicine outlines basic science, animal, and human studies that suggest oestrogen may have […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
EZ-IO outperformed B.I.G
A small randomised trial of adult emergency department patients showed faster insertion and higher success rates with the EZ-IO compared […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus, Ultrasound
Pulmonary embolism echo
Academic Emergency Medicine has a free article on sonographic detection of submassive pumonary embolism, with three video clips. One of […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Peripheral vasoactive infusions
It is often recommended that vasoactive agents are infused via central lines because of the risk of infiltration and tissue […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
rFVIIa did not reduce trauma mortality
An industry sponsored placebo-controlled multicentre randomised controlled trial has shown no mortality reduction from recombinant activated Factor VII (rFVIIa) in […]
All Updates, Resus, Ultrasound
Pneumoperitoneum
This video from the Trauma Association of Canada shows sonographic detection of intraperitoneal free air [quicktime]http://www.traumacanada.org/media/pneumoperitoneum_video.mov[/quicktime]
All Updates, Kids, Resus
Bronchiolitis – not much works
A review article on bronchiolitis reminds us that there is little evidence to support any specific therapies. Bronchodilators, steroids, adrenaline […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
Alternative toothless mask position
An alternative position for holding the facemask when bag-mask ventilating edentulous patients is described and evaluated. 49 patients with inadequate […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Taming the Ketamine Tiger
A paper of great interest for those of us who spend a lot of time teaching the use of ketamine […]