Resuscitation Concepts: Critical Care in the Emergency Department – ONE DAY EVENT
Tues 24 September 2024, Broadway House, London This is a one day run through of how I think every aspect […]
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Convergent Evolution in the Jungles of Critical Care
By Stuart Duffin Expat Brit, intensive care physician and anaesthetist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Stuart trained in […]
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Be Like That Guy – Dr John Hinds
The critical care and #FOAMed community lost our friend Dr John Hinds a few days ago. We’re in the […]
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Breaking with tradition in paediatric RSI
‘Traditional’ rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia is often described with inclusion of cricoid pressure and the strict omission of any […]
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Atropine for Paediatric RSI?
In some areas it has been traditional to pre-medicate or co-medicate with atropine when intubating infants and children, despite a […]
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Blood pressure target in septic shock
A study comparing mean arterial pressure (MAP) targets of 80 to 85 mm Hg (high-target group) with 65 to 70 […]
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No Benefit From Early Goal Directed Therapy
The first of three major trials assessing early goal directed therapy (EGDT) in sepsis – the American ProCESS Trial – […]
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Therapeutic hypothermia does not improve arrest outcome
A paper published today represents to me what’s great about science. I am impressed with those investigators who had the […]
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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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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 […]