Emergency percutaneous airway
An excellent thorough review of emergency needle and surgical cricothyroidotomy – collectively described as ’emergency percutaneous airway’ – reveals a […]
All Updates, ICU, PHARM, Resus
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All Updates, Resus, Trauma
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 […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Pre-hospital thoracotomy
The London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service provides a physician / paramedic team to victims of trauma. One of the interventions […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Surgeons and trauma teams
There can be issues associated with calling surgeons to trauma team activations in the ED, including interruption to the surgeon’s […]
All Updates, Resus
It's up to you….
Sometimes you have nothing to lose by doing a procedure that you may never have done before, if the patient […]
All Updates, Kids, Resus
Prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy
My colleagues and I describe a tragic case in this month’s European Journal of Emergency Medicine1. Our physican-paramedic team was […]
All Updates, Kids, Resus, Trauma, Ultrasound
FAST in kids has low sensitivity
The abstract says it all – don’t use FAST to rule out significant abdominal free fluid in kids with blunt […]
All Updates, ICU, Resus, Trauma
Decompressive craniectomy for high ICP head trauma
Bilateral decompressive craniectomy for severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and intracranial hypertension that was refractory to first line therapies did […]
All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Trauma
Military vascular injury to the torso is deadly
Outcomes are described for military personnel with vascular injury sustained in Afghanistan and Iraq. BACKGROUND: Military injuries to named blood […]
Acute Med, All Updates, Guidelines, Resus
Algorithm for Body Packers
‘Mules’ or body packers are people who transport illegal drugs by packet ingestion into the gastrointestinal tract. A large study […]