Hyperbaric O2 for the sick and the well with CO poisoning
A French study, large by hyperbaric oxygen trial standards, did not confirm that hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves recovery from pure […]
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Emergency tracheal intubations outside the OR
Most data regarding RSI complication rates traditionally come from the operating room setting. I and my colleagues made a small […]
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Anaesthesia's dirty laundry – let's all learn from it
NAP4 is here! Is that good? Yes. Why? Because it’s the long awaited 4th National Audit Project of the Royal […]
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Fever in head injury might not be bad
Thanks to Michael McGonigal MD for highlighting this in his excellent Trauma Professional’s Blog: Body temperature does not necessarily reflect […]
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London trauma deaths described
Doctors from Britain’s most established major trauma centre – the Royal London Hospital – have produced mortality data over a […]
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ECLS on Japanese, in Japanese
A review of extracorporeal life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was undertaken, looking specifically at studies published in the Japanese […]
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TIA workup renders ABCD2 unhelpful
ABCD2 is recommended to stratify the risk of stroke in patients presenting to the ED with TIA symptoms. In some […]
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Limits on resuscitative thoractomy in ED
Eighteen trauma centers contributed ED resuscitative thoracotomy data to a study that commenced enrollment in January 2003. During the ensuing […]
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Therapeutic hypothermia for newborns
More evidence that cooling the hypoxic neonatal brain improves outcomes…. OBJECTIVE Mild hypothermia after perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reduces neurologic […]
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Out of hospital monitoring in kids
I don’t have full text access to the Journal Pediatrics, so I’m not sure what I make of this small […]