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Papercut: Apixaban for Stroke prevention in Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation cardiology members papercut lit review May 01, 2024

The first thing you might say is, "Why's should I care about subclinical Atrial Fibrillation, I work in Emergency Medicine?" Perhaps, this will guid...

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Cardiac Arrest complicating emergency airway management airway members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 25, 2024

Emergency airway management and specifically intubation can be associated with significant adverse events, related to the airway itself (failed intu...

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Methylene Blue for Septic Shock: Prime Time? papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 25, 2024

A 78 yo patients presents with tachycardia and hypotension. There has been a recent episode of dysuria and the diagnosis of urosepsis is made. Antibio...

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4 of the best cardiac arrest RCT's of 2023 members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 25, 2024

This papercut comes from an editorial in Resuscitation, where they chose four important multi centre RCTs with large sample sizes, published in 2023...

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Management of Cardiogenic Shock in Elderly Patients members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 16, 2024

Mortality in elderly patients with cariogenic shock is high... in some studies, greater than 75%. This review is of an AHA Scientific Statement  Circu...

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Timing of Vasopressin initiation in septic shock cardiology members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 14, 2024

Vasopressin is often used as a second line agent to Noradrenaline in septic shock. The usual approach to sepsis is commencement of fluids and if a m...

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Accuracy of Non-invasive blood pressure in critically ill patients members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 14, 2024

Haber E.N et al. Accuracy of Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically ill Adults. J Int Care Med. 2024, Jan 12 (Ahead of Print.) PMID: 38...

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Adrenaline or Airway first in cardiac arrest? airway members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 08, 2024

Cardiac arrest has a poor survival rate. In this study Okubo et al(1) tried to address the question of adrenaline or airway first, in out of hospital ...

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POCUS Pulse checks in cardiac arrest members papercut lit review resuscitation Apr 03, 2024

The pulse check has been an important part of the assessment of unresponsive patients. It may be the determining factor in making the decision to co...

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