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Up to one third of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest(OHCA) have impaired myocardial contractility and vasodilatation. The mainstay of treat...
Dr James Edwards discusses the CLOVER Trial comparing restrictive to more liberal fluid management in Sepsis.
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Prof Paul Middleton brings us two practice changing papers
- Cretinous M A et al. Respiratory Rate: The Neglected Vital Sign. MJA 2008;188: 657-659 ...
A 68 yo patient is brought into the ED, post cardiac arrest.
The patient collapsed whilst out. Down-time was approximately 5 minutes; bystander CPR w...
An 88 yo patient who is fully independent, is brought into ED by ambulance in Cardiogenic Shock. The only past history the patient has is hypertension...
Emergency airway management and specifically intubation can be associated with significant adverse events, related to the airway itself (failed intu...
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...
This papercut comes from an editorial in Resuscitation, where they chose four important multi centre RCTs with large sample sizes, published in 2023...
Mortality in elderly patients with cariogenic shock is high... in some studies, greater than 75%. This review is of an AHA Scientific Statement Circu...