Cricoid can worsen VL View
It is known that cricoid pressure can hinder laryngoscopic view of the cords during direct laryngoscopy. Using a Pentax-AWS Video […]
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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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Lifting the Fogg on ED Intubaton
Fellow retrieval specialist and Royal North Shore Hospital emergency physician Dr Toby Fogg and coauthors have published their audit of […]
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Which pelvic compression device is best?
Two popular pelvic compression devices are the SAM Pelvic Sling II and the T-POD®. In a direct comparison 50 health […]
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What happened to HIFU?
Image: Diagram showing liver lesioning using a HIFU transducer by James Ross McLaughlan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons High […]
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Perimortem Caesarean Delivery: Late is Better than Not
“To date, approximately one-third of the women who die during pregnancy remain undelivered at the time of death” Guidelines recommend […]
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London Calling – part 3
Notes from Day 4 of the London Trauma Conference The highlight for me was Mr Jonny Morrison speaking on Resuscitative […]
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Transtracheal airways in kids. Well, pigs' kids anyway
Ever had to do a surgical airway in a child? Thought not. They’re pretty rare. Bill Heegaard MD from Henepin […]
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Externally rotate leg for femoral vein access
Want to access the femoral vein? Externally rotate the leg at the hip and things might be a bit easier. […]
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Needle decompression: it's still not going to work
A pet topic that keeps coming up here is management of tension pneumothorax. Plenty of studies demonstrate that traditionally taught […]