Post-arrest hypothermia in children did not improve outcome
Many clinicians extrapolate adult research findings to paediatric patients because there’s no alternative, and until now we’ve had to do […]
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Esmolol for refractory VF
Already well publicised on social media, the team at Hennepin County published a retrospective comparison between patients with refractory VF […]
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Blunt traumatic arrest in kids
Traumatic cardiac arrest outcomes are not great, but they’re not so bad that resuscitation is futile – a subject I’ve […]
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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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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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Hyperchloraemia and mortality
Here’s something to add to the pile of data cautioning us to think before we acidify patients with saline. A […]
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Isolated LAFB and outcome
A small study followed up an older cohort of patients with isolated left anterior fascicular block on their ECG (isolated […]
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Blood products in trauma & survivor bias
The observation that patients with haemorrhagic trauma in military and civilian settings do better if they receive coagulation factors and […]
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Stroke thrombolysis outcomes from registry
Data from a large national stroke registry are reported to show that in patients who received tPA, outcomes were worse […]
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TracMan results
The TracMan trial – a multicentre randomised trial of early vs late tracheostomy in ICU patients – has been published, […]