Difficult intubation on ICU
A score to predict difficulty of intubation in ICU patients underwent derivation and validation in French ICUs. The main predictors […]
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Another argument for ED thoracotomy
A team from Los Angeles (including the great Kenji Inaba) has published a study on penetrating cardiac wounds in the […]
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The importance of first pass success
A large single-centre study in an academic tertiary care center emergency department (where residents perform most of the intubations) examined […]
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Alternative 'universal' plasma donor
The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]
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Endovascular stroke treatment
Two randomised controlled trials have been published which compare endovascular stroke treatments with intravenous tPA. Both the American Interventional Management […]
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High Frequency Oscillation Trial Results
Here’s a heads up on a major evidence-based medicine event in critical care: the results of two long awaited randomised […]
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Advanced airways and worse outcomes in cardiac arrest
A new study demonstrates an association between advanced prehospital airway management and worse clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac arrest. […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
A study on data from traumatic brain injury patients from the the TARN database examined the prognostic value of various […]
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Targeted ICP reduction in TBI
A South American randomised controlled trial has demonstrated no improvement in mortality when traumatic brain injured patients had therapy targeted […]
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Hyperglycaemia & mortality in sepsis – lactate dependent?
I like this paper for introducing a new concept to me. For years the critical care community has recognised the […]