5 Cycles of CPR takes 2 minutes
Newly trained BLS providers were more likely to spend two minutes counting 5 cycles of 30:2 compression:ventilation than to correctly […]
All Updates, Resus
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Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
Abnormal head CT in altered mental status
In a study of 674 patients with altered mental status who received a CT scan of the brain, logistic regression […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
EGDT sepsis bundle challenged
An article in American Journal of Emergency Medicine by two intensivists challenges the science behind Rivers’ early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Resus
Biphasic shocks for AF and Atrial flutter
Based on a study of 453 consecutive patients undergoing their first transthoracic electrical cardioversion for atrial tachyarrhythmias, recommendations were developed to […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Bad news for etomidate from CORTICUS
In an a priori substudy of the CORTICUS multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of hydrocortisone in septic shock, the use […]
All Updates, Resus, Trauma
Whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation
German trauma patients are more likely to survive if they have a whole body CT rather than selective scans. Or […]
All Updates, Resus
Ketamine and procedural success
There is a myth that increased muscular tone caused by ketamine leads to an increased failure rate of joint manipulations […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus
Cardiocerebral resuscitation
An emergency medical service introduced a cardiocerebral resuscitation protocol and compared outcomes with a standard ACLS protocol. Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) […]
All Updates, Resus
End tidal CO2 and procedural sedation
One hundred and thirty-two adults underwent propofol sedation in the emergency department and were randomised into a group in which […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus
Higher PEEP in ARDS
The current mortality of 35% associated with acute lung injury (ALI) is roughly three times higher than that associated with […]