Echo in life support feasible
Emergency physicians in Cambridge and Ipswich in the UK prospectively documented their echo use in cardiac arrest. Images were easily […]
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
Over a thousand patients in North America with blunt traumatic head injury and coma who did not have hypovolaemic shock […]
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
A cadaveric study using a 3-dimensional electromagnetic tracking device to asses cervical motion compared the application of a scoop stretcher […]
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
Being human, I suffer from confirmation bias: I’ve become aware that I’m always on the look out for studies that […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
EZ-IO outperformed B.I.G
A small randomised trial of adult emergency department patients showed faster insertion and higher success rates with the EZ-IO compared […]
All Updates, PHARM, Trauma
Scene time not linked to outcome in large cohort
Okay – I admit to loving this paper, partly because it blows away the dogma of short scene times and […]
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 […]