Hypovolaemic shock and pre-hospital hypertonic saline
No benefit was shown in a trial of hypertonic saline (with or without dextran) versus 0.9% saline in patients with […]
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Neurologic complications in infective endocarditis
More than half of patients admitted to ICU with left-sided infective endocarditis developed neurologic complications OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical […]
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Steroids for trauma
A French study on adult patients intubated for multiple trauma assessed the effect of a one week course of stress-dose […]
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RSI complications increase with intubation difficulty
A substudy of a large randomised controlled trial comparing etomidate with ketamine for RSI in the pre-hospital environment, emergency department, […]
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Single bag for adults and kids
A nice idea – using a single adult self-inflating bag for the resuscitation of adult and paediatric patients, marked to […]
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Decompressive craniectomy for high ICP head trauma
Bilateral decompressive craniectomy for severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and intracranial hypertension that was refractory to first line therapies did […]
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Intubation checklist
Perhaps you’ve read the blog post and heard the podcast about the excellent NAP4 airway audit…..now you can start putting […]
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NAP 4 Podcast
Check out EMCrit.org for our Podcast interview with Professor Jonathan Benger, the Emergency Physician who contributed to the design, execution, […]
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Predicting neurological outcome after cardiac arrest
Predicting neurological recovery after successful cardiac arrest resuscitation has always been tricky, with clinical signs on day one being unreliable, […]
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Colorimetric CO2 detectors and newborns
Colorimetric CO2 detectors may fail to indicate successful tracheal tube placement in adults in certain circumstances, such as low cardiac […]