Thoracic electrical bioimpedance in dyspnoea
Thoracic electrical bioimpedance (TEB) was used in ED patients presenting with dyspnoea to differentiate between cardiac and non-cardiac causes. The […]
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Traumatic Aortic Injury
Two recent papers expand our knowledge of blunt traumatic aortic injury. UK crash data identified risk factors for low impact […]
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Terlipressin for refractory cardiac arrest in kids
Okay so it’s a small case series – but the results warrant further investigation: 10-20 mcg/kg terlipressin was given to […]
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Control oxygenation after resuscitation
How much oxygen should we give patients after successful cardiac arrest resuscitation? Too little oxygen may potentiate anoxic injury. Too […]
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Post cardiac arrest guideline
A patient is resuscitated from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and is in your emergency department, comatose, with a pulse. You […]
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Early CPAP versus Surfactant in Extreme Prems
In a randomised, multicentre trial of 1316 infants born between 24 weeks 0 days and 27 weeks 6 days of […]
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Bloodtest Not Pertinent (BNP)
Despite a lack of evidence that it’s useful, many emergency departments have introduced BNP testing. Some smart Australians decided to […]
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PCI and therapeutic hypothermia
Percutaneous coronary intervention did not increase the risk of dysrhythmia, infection, coagulopathy, or hypotension associated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac […]
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The myth of ketamine and head injury
A literature review addresses the myth that ketamine is contraindicated in head injured patients. They summarise articles from the 1970’s […]
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Rapid discharge in AF
The Ottawa Aggressive Protocol is used to treat recent onset (< 48 hours) atrial fibrillation or flutter with procainamide and/or […]