RCT of 7.5% saline in head injury
Image: A bottle of saline solution found after the protests in Hong Kong during the WTO Ministerial Confere by fuzheado, […]
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Pre-hospital cooling post arrest
Image: CSIRO ScienceImage 2319 Using the CTD Collector in Antarctica by Marine Research, CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons […]
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Inferior MI – check V1 too
Lead V1 directly faces the right ventricle and during an inferior AMI may exhibit ST elevation with concomitant right ventricular […]
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Unilateral pulmonary oedema worse
A few years ago in the Emergency Department I managed a sick hypotensive, hypoxic 20-something year old with a unilateral […]
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Pneumonia scores equivalent
Got a favourite assessment tool for classifying the severity of community acquired pneumonia? Two systematic reviews showed no significant differences […]
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No benefit from pre-hospital trauma doctor in Holland
Image: Trauma helicopter on the beach (50006612361) by Maurits Verbiest from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia […]
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Scene time not linked to outcome in large cohort
Image: Stopwatch, 1810201155, ako by Ansgar Koreng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Okay – I admit to loving this […]
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Increased mortality with non-trauma centre care
A trauma database was analysed to see if patients who were transported from the field to a non-trauma centre (NTC) […]
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Surviving avalanche burial
Image: Avalanche of snow across railroad tracks in Alaska by Frank G. Carpenter, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Avalanche burial […]
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Oxygen in AMI – no benefit, possible harm
Image: Oxygen mask 1919, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A Cochrane review examined the evidence from randomised controlled trials to establish […]