Acute medicine guidelines
The Acute Medicine in the Emergency Department Seminar refers to a number of guidelines from different sources. Go to the […]
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First Aid for Burns
A review of burn first aid treatments highlights the paucity of evidence on which to make firm recommendations. The authors […]
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Mallampati unhelpful in ED patients
A prospective study of 366 patients requiring intubation in the ED revealed by logistic regression analysis that the only component […]
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Cricoid pressure – ?not so useless after all
An interesting MRI-based study of adult volunteers takes a further look at whether cricoid pressure effectively occludes the digestive tract. […]
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Fluids for cooling post cardiac arrest
Large volume cold fluid resuscitation after return of spontaneous circulation can contribute to effective cooling but does it impair cardiac […]
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Paediatric gastric tubes
A child with status epilepticus has been stabilised and intubated and is awaiting admission to the paediatric intensive care unit. […]
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Life threatening post partum haemorrhage
A mother may experience life-threatening haemorrhage after delivery of her baby. What can the resuscitation doctor do? Rosen’s Emergency Medicine […]
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Spinal Cord Injury Guidelines
The Paralyzed Veterans of America produce a number of evidence-based guidelines for management of spinal cord injury and its complications […]
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Which 'flu mask for staff?
A Canadian study in which 446 nurses were randomised to wear one or the other showed a standard surgical mask […]
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Vehicle Rollover
Vehicle rollover as an indicator of mechanism of injury was investigated in a study examining accident databases and the medical […]