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Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound

Pre-hospital Echo

Cliff / February 21, 2011

Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo on patients with symptoms either of profound hypotension and/or severe dyspnoea/tachypnoea where judged […]

Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus

CPR on your own? Stay at the head end

Cliff / February 13, 2011

In this manikin study, single-rescuer bag-mask ventilation (BMV) with chest compressions was tried in three different positions. Staying at the […]

All Updates, PHARM, Resus

How to give cold saline in the field

Cliff / February 11, 2011

Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia might be a good thing, but there may be difficulties in achieving it if the 4 degrees […]

All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus

End tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest

Cliff / February 9, 2011

Measuring end-tidal CO2 in cardiac arrest patients is helpful for confirming tracheal tube placement assessing the effectiveness of chest compressions […]

All Updates, PHARM, Resus

Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia

Cliff / February 5, 2011

A Czech study demonstrated effective pre-hospital therapeutic cooling of post-cardiac arrest patients using fairly modest amounts of intravenous saline at […]

All Updates, PHARM, Resus

Better outcomes with conventional CPR

Cliff / February 3, 2011

A very large nationwide Japanese observational study examined outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who received CPR from lay rescuers. […]

Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus

Improved survival with modified CPR

Cliff / January 23, 2011

A large randomised controlled trial1 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients compared standard CPR with CPR augmented by two modifications: active […]