Double balloon pump fail
Two recent trials question the ongoing use of intra-aortic balloon pumps: in patients with acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock […]
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Resus
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Beta blockers potentially beneficial in septic shock
Counterintuitive as it sounds, this is pretty cool. I blogged about these guys before when they published their findings on […]
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Colloids again: still no benefit.
It’s nice to have big randomised trials to guide critical care practice. The age-old crystalloid/colloid debate (is that still going?) […]
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Prehospital ECLS – it's happening
Patients with refractory (>30 mins) cardiac arrest underwent prehospital cannulation for extracorporeal life support in a French feasibility study. A […]
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Hyperchloraemia and mortality
Here’s something to add to the pile of data cautioning us to think before we acidify patients with saline. A […]
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Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure
Some new guidelines to be aware of are the AHA Guidelines for the Management of Heart Failure. Full text is […]
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Avoiding intubation in ARDS with awake ECMO
A letter in Intensive Care Medicine by Hoeper and colleagues from Hannover describes a small case series of six ARDS […]
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Even the dead exhale CO2
Cardiac arrest patients sometimes have unrecognised oesophageal intubations because clinicians omit capnography, based on the assumption that circulatory arrest leads […]
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How to Be a Hero
I’m not a hero and don’t claim to be, but when I was given this talk to do for the […]
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Early surgery for intracerebral haemorrhage
To operate or not to operate on patients with an intracerebral haematoma? Deep ones can be tricky and risk damage […]