RSI complications increase with intubation difficulty
A substudy of a large randomised controlled trial comparing etomidate with ketamine for RSI in the pre-hospital environment, emergency department, […]
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Pre-hospital Airtraq use often failed
The Airtraq seems nifty when you try it on a manikin, but until now the question of whether it would […]
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Video laryngoscope successes and failures
With a difficult airway, video laryngoscopes can get you out of a hole – or rather into one. However they’re […]
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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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Longer apnoea time with roc in the obese too
Suxamethonium increases muscle oxygen consumption as a result of skeletal muscle fasciculation. In a comparison between sux and rocuronium in […]
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African study on cricoid pressure
A colleague told me about a cricoid pressure paper I would otherwise have missed, since I don’t normally check out […]
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Pre-hospital RSI and single use blades
Single-use metal laryngoscope blades were compared in a randomised trial in the pre-hospital setting by French SAMU physicians. First-pass intubation […]
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Rocuronium vs suxamethonium
This short but punchy lecture by Reuben Strayer of the excellent Emergency Medicine Updates blog addresses some dogma and tells […]
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More on Rocuronium (and Sugammadex)
While I am gradually being persuaded rocuronium might after all be a better choice than suxamethonium for rapid sequence intubation […]
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Neuromuscular blockade facilitates mask ventilation
A blinded randomised controlled trial of rocuronium versus saline in anaesthetised patients demonstrated that mask ventilation was easier in paralysed […]