ALI / ARDS strategies
A CME article in Critical Care Medicine summarises the literature on ARDS (including its limitations) and provides evidence based recommendations […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Resus
Life-saving medicine
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Ultrasound of intracranial haematoma
Using a 2Mhz transducer insonating through the temporal acoustic bone window, Italian physicians detected the expansion of an extradural haematoma. […]
Resus
Guidelines on trauma in pregnancy
Guidelines on trauma in pregnancy have been published by the The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): RECOMMENDATIONS […]
All Updates, Guidelines, Kids, Resus
New College Ketamine Guideline
The College of Emergency Medicine (UK) has updated its guideline on ketamine sedation in children. The summary is copied below […]
All Updates, Guidelines, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
The brave men and women of the military not only risk their lives for us – they also provide a […]
All Updates, ICU, Kids, PHARM, Resus
Less RSI desaturation with Roc
Some of my pre-hospital critical care colleagues in the UK exclusively use rocuronium in preference to suxamethonium for rapid sequence […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
Steroids for pneumonia?
Steroids are useful in asthma and COPD exacerbations, which are lung problems. Pneumonia is a lung infection, so steroids might […]
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Two tier trauma team
Rather than activating a full trauma team based on traditional criteria, this team devised a two tier approach; if there […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Military pre-hospital thoracotomy
Military doctors in Afghanistan reviewed their experience of thoracotomy done within 24 hours of admission to their hospital. The ballistic […]
All Updates, Kids, Resus
New meningococcal guideline
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced a guideline on the management of bacterial meningitis and […]