Resus – Page 49

Infant CPR: two thumbs even when alone

Cliff / June 28, 2010

Infant CPR guidelines recommend two-finger chest compressions with a lone rescuer and two-thumb with two rescuers. Two-thumb provides better chest […]

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Valsalva technique in SVT

Cliff / June 27, 2010

Investigators at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney (it’s good there) did a literature review to determine the best […]

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Pre-hospital RSI

Cliff / June 25, 2010

Physicians from HEMS London document their experience of 400 pre-hospital rapid sequence induction / intubations. Their data are consistent with […]

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Pre-sedation fasting unnecessary

Cliff / June 22, 2010

A thorough review of the emergency medicine sedation literature showed there is only one reported case of pulmonary aspiration during […]

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What fluid in rhabdomyolysis?

Cliff / June 21, 2010

A ‘BestBET‘ from the Emergency Medicine Journal examined the evidence for the use of sodium bicarbonate and/or mannitol in the […]

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Oxygen in AMI – no benefit, possible harm

Cliff / June 20, 2010

A Cochrane review examined the evidence from randomised controlled trials to establish whether routine use of inhaled oxygen in acute myocardial […]

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Stroke thrombolysis benefit decays with time

Cliff / June 18, 2010

Pooled results of several trials comparing recombinant tissue plasminogen activator with placebo in ischaemic stroke quantify the profile of benefit […]

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