Echo in life support feasible
Image: 2D ECHOCARDIOGRAM MACHINE WITH A TABLE AND A STETHOSCOPE by Dr D. Malleswara Rao, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Trauma
RCT of 7.5% saline in head injury
Image: A bottle of saline solution found after the protests in Hong Kong during the WTO Ministerial Confere by fuzheado, […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Kids, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Two smaller lines may be quicker
Using Poiseuille’s law and standardized gauge sizes, an 18-gauge (g) intravenous catheter (IV) should be 2.5 times faster than a […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Scoop minimises cervical movement
Image: Ferno Model 35-P stretcher in back of ambulance, EMS Museum, Heritage Village, Kingsville, Ontario, by Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Give all sick patients oestrogen?
A thought provoking article in Critical Care Medicine outlines basic science, animal, and human studies that suggest oestrogen may have […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
No benefit from pre-hospital trauma doctor in Holland
Image: Trauma helicopter on the beach (50006612361) by Maurits Verbiest from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
EZ-IO outperformed B.I.G
Image: EZIODrill2021 by James Heilman, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A small randomised trial of adult emergency department […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Scene time not linked to outcome in large cohort
Image: Stopwatch, 1810201155, ako by Ansgar Koreng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Okay – I admit to loving this […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Increased mortality with non-trauma centre care
A trauma database was analysed to see if patients who were transported from the field to a non-trauma centre (NTC) […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
rFVIIa did not reduce trauma mortality
An industry sponsored placebo-controlled multicentre randomised controlled trial has shown no mortality reduction from recombinant activated Factor VII (rFVIIa) in […]