New meningococcal guideline
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced a guideline on the management of bacterial meningitis and […]
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Guidelines for Clostridium Difficile
Guidelines for preventing, detecting, and treating Clostridium Difficile infection from the Infectious Diseases Society of America have been published. Clinical […]
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STEMI and PCI guidelines
Lots of interesting and up to date information in this thick document from December 2009 Full text is available here […]
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Thoracic Aortic Disease Guidelines
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Thoracic Aortic Disease have been published by a collaboration between a […]
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European Trauma Bleeding Guidelines updated
Update 2013: since this post was written in 2010, new guidelines have been written entitled: “Management of bleeding and […]
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The early management of unstable angina and NSTEMI
The UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence has produced evidence based guidelines on the early management of unstable angina and […]
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2000 vs 2005 VF guidelines: RCT
One of the key changes in international resuscitation guidelines between the 2000 and 2005 has been to minimise potentially deleterious […]
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Guidelines on penetrating abdominal trauma
The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma has published guidelines on the nonoperative management of penetrating abdominal trauma. RECOMMENDATIONS […]
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WHO Guidelines for Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) 2009
The World Health Organisation has published updated guidelines on drug treatment of Influenza A(H1N1)2009 and other influenza viruses. Their recommendations […]
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Preventing AKI on the ICU
A multinational European working group produced the following evidence-based recommendations for preventing acute kidney injury (AKI). Read the full guideline […]