Cuff pressures and tracheal injury
Image: Endotracheal Tube by BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons We all intubate patients with cuffed tubes, but we’re […]
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Better outcome with paediatric retrieval teams
Image: NETS Ambulance for Emergency Intensive Care for newborns and children by Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, via Wikimedia Commons […]
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Paramedic RSI in Australia
Image: Paramedics on motorcycles by John Torcasio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A prospective, randomized, controlled trial compared paramedic […]
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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
Image: French surgical instruments 1700s by Charles Dionis, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The complication rate after a negative or […]
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Flat IVC on CT associated with deterioration
Image: CT Scanner (NIH BioArt 373 – 632561) by Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons BACKGROUND: […]
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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
Image: Queensland Railway Ambulance Corps Interstate competion team, J. Leo Mason (captain) 1920s Melbourne by John Robert McPherson, CC0, via […]
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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 […]