Cuff pressures and tracheal injury
We all intubate patients with cuffed tubes, but we’re far too busy and important to fart around measuring tracheal tube […]
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outcome
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Better outcome with paediatric retrieval teams
Data from the England and Wales Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network on children (aged 16 years or younger) admitted to […]
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Paramedic RSI in Australia
A prospective, randomized, controlled trial compared paramedic rapid sequence intubation with hospital intubation in adults with severe traumatic brain injury […]
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HEMS transport may be predictor of survival
Helicopters are controversial in EMS circles, particularly in the United States, which seems to have a high number of Helicopter […]
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Negative laparotomy
The complication rate after a negative or nontherapeutic laparotomy is reported to be substantial but most of this reported morbidity […]
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Flat IVC on CT associated with deterioration
BACKGROUND: : We aimed to investigate the value of the diameter of the inferior vena cava (IVC) on initial computed […]
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Brain chain
Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has been associated with improved outcomes in term infants who present with moderate hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). However, […]
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Paediatric arrest outcomes
A study of out-of-hospital paediatric arrests in Melbourne gives some useful outcome data: overall, paediatric victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest […]
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Scene times & penetrating trauma
An observational cohort study of penetrating trauma patients treated by the Mobile Emergency Care Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark over a […]
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Cirrhotic patients on ICU
The prognosis of cirrhotic patients with multiple organ failure is not universally dismal. A retrospective French study examined predictive factors […]