
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 …
With the news of a fatal car crash in Hobart earlier this year, social media was abuzz with rumours of a perimortem …
A middle-aged man is brought to your ED in cardiac arrest after being a pedestrian struck by a car at high speed. …
Nervous that a woman might rock up to your ED in advanced labour? That you may be faced with 2 patients? One …
You may have seen that updated resuscitation guidelines for 2015 have been released by ILCOR, l’European Resuscitation Council, the British Resuscitation Council …
Excessive O2 in MI can cause harm The routine use of supplemental oxygen in MI is of no benefit and may actually be of …
The NEJM this week is overflowing with papers relevant to critical care. Amongst them is the anticipated PROMISE trial, the final chapter in …
Today marked the first education session for the new round of RMOs and interns to grace our emergency department’s hallways. The programme …
This week, NEJM has published the PROPPR trial—Pragmatic Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratio—investigating the ratio of blood products used in massive …
An interesting article in press over at Resuscitation has investigated the accuracy of Rhythm Analysis Algorithm results from AEDs used in prehospital treatment, …
CPR is a skill we all have to varying degrees, and not one that we have to use very often (all things …
We all know that the only evidence for resuscitation in cardiac arrest lies in good quality chest compressions. We also know that …
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 …