The importance of first pass success
A large single-centre study in an academic tertiary care center emergency department (where residents perform most of the intubations) examined […]
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Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
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Alternative 'universal' plasma donor
The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]
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Speeding things up through equipment design
Ever been at a cardiac arrest resuscitation where someone’s opening and closing drawers at great speed but failing to retrieve […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
A study on data from traumatic brain injury patients from the the TARN database examined the prognostic value of various […]
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The Resus Room Life Guard
I was lucky to be accompanied through much of my emergency medicine training and specialist work in the UK by […]
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Which pelvic compression device is best?
Two popular pelvic compression devices are the SAM Pelvic Sling II and the T-POD®. In a direct comparison 50 health […]
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What happened to HIFU?
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) was hailed as the ‘surgery of the future’ a few years ago(1). As it’s now […]
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Targeted ICP reduction in TBI
A South American randomised controlled trial has demonstrated no improvement in mortality when traumatic brain injured patients had therapy targeted […]
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Perimortem Caesarean Delivery: Late is Better than Not
“To date, approximately one-third of the women who die during pregnancy remain undelivered at the time of death” Guidelines recommend […]
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London Calling – part 3
Notes from Day 4 of the London Trauma Conference The highlight for me was Mr Jonny Morrison speaking on Resuscitative […]