Prehospital echo predicts arrest outcome
In hospital, the detection of cardiac standstill with ultrasound predicts a fatal outcome from cardiac arrest with a high degree […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound
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Vasopressin – what it does and doesn't do
The current Surviving Sepsis campaign guidelines recommend that vasopressin should not be administered as the initial vasopressor in septic shock, […]
Acute Med, All Updates, ICU, Resus
Potassium levels and AMI death
An association is demonstrated between abnormal (both high and low) serum potassium levels and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute […]
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Enoxaparin in acute medical patients
A large multinational study challenges the practice of routine thromboprophylaxis for hospitalised acutely ill medical patients. Enoxaparin plus graduated compression […]
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Treating sepsis – have we got it the wrong way round?
In our understanding of the pathophysiology of sepsis, we often attribute organ damage and death to the excessive host response […]
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Complications after penetrating cardiac injury
Trauma specialists from Arizona and California describe patients with penetrating cardiac wounds, a quarter of whom survive to discharge. Survival […]
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AF in sepsis and risk of stroke
Atrial fibrillation can occur in the setting of severe sepsis, and often presents a therapeutic conundrum for critical care physicians, […]
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AMI mortality increased as the number of risk factors declined
An interesting finding: in patients with myocardial infarction, hospital mortality increased consistently as the number of risk factors declined. There […]
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Oxygen therapy for asthma can elevate CO2
Patients with acute exacerbations of asthma randomised to receive high concentration oxygen therapy showed a greater rise in CO2 than […]
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'Cryptic shock' important but not always very cryptic
Patients with severe sepsis and an elevated lactate who appear to be normotensive had a mortality similar to those presenting […]