Thinking about: Perimortem Caesarean Section
With the news of a fatal car crash in Hobart earlier this year, social media was abuzz with rumours of a perimortem …
How long do you attempt to resuscitate traumatic cardiac arrest?
A middle-aged man is brought to your ED in cardiac arrest after being a pedestrian struck by a car at high speed. …
NeoResus: Advanced Resuscitation Course
Nervous that a woman might rock up to your ED in advanced labour? That you may be faced with 2 patients? One …
What’s new in resuscitation? A global update
You may have seen that updated resuscitation guidelines for 2015 have been released by ILCOR, l’European Resuscitation Council, the British Resuscitation Council …
AVOID: Excessive oxygen in MI
Excessive O2 in MI can cause harm The routine use of supplemental oxygen in MI is of no benefit and may actually be of …
EGDT, it had such PROMISE
The NEJM this week is overflowing with papers relevant to critical care. Amongst them is the anticipated PROMISE trial, the final chapter in …
Assessment of the Sick ED patient: RMO & Intern Induction
Today marked the first education session for the new round of RMOs and interns to grace our emergency department’s hallways. The programme …
What’s the PROPPR ratio for massive transfusion?
This week, NEJM has published the PROPPR trial—Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratio—investigating the ratio of blood products used in massive …
Do you trust your AED?
An interesting article in press over at Resuscitation has investigated the accuracy of Rhythm Analysis Algorithm results from AEDs used in prehospital treatment, …
How good’s your CPR? Key tips for improving…
CPR is a skill we all have to varying degrees, and not one that we have to use very often (all things …
Resuscitative thoracotomy in medical cardiac arrest… time to open the chest?
We all know that the only evidence for resuscitation in cardiac arrest lies in good quality chest compressions. We also know that …
The ARISE study released, and…
Similarly with the recently published PROCESS trial, the initial conclusion is no benefit in 90-day all-cause mortality for early goal-directed therapy. We …