When to Stop Resuscitation
My talk at the SmaccGOLD conference in March 2014 Cliff Reid – When Should Resuscitation Stop from Social Media and […]
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Down with "down" time!
A man in his 40s has a witnessed collapse and CPR is immediately started. Paramedics are on scene within 5 […]
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Breaking with tradition in paediatric RSI
‘Traditional’ rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia is often described with inclusion of cricoid pressure and the strict omission of any […]
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Palpating neonatal tracheal tubes
After neonatal intubation, the incidence of malposition of the tip of the tracheal tube is fairly high. A technique was […]
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Atropine for Paediatric RSI?
In some areas it has been traditional to pre-medicate or co-medicate with atropine when intubating infants and children, despite a […]
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Resus Team Size and Productivity
A paediatric trauma centre study showed that in their system, seven people at the bedside was the optimum number to […]
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Blood pressure target in septic shock
A study comparing mean arterial pressure (MAP) targets of 80 to 85 mm Hg (high-target group) with 65 to 70 […]
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No Benefit From Early Goal Directed Therapy
The first of three major trials assessing early goal directed therapy (EGDT) in sepsis – the American ProCESS Trial – […]
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Use a table for selecting PEEP in ARDS
Selecting the right amount of PEEP to recruit collapsed alveoli in patients with ARDS is important but the best method […]
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i-STAT® analysis of intraosseous aspirate
In the absence of vascular access we may resort to sending intraosseous aspirates for analysis, but in some laboratories there […]