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A blog on anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine. In-hospital and outside. Mostly focusing on the critically ill patient. Written by two Scandinavian senior anaesthetic registrars.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
UNRELIABLE SERVICE – ISP SWITCH
We’ve been having server problems lately. This has resulted in some site down time – but also some posts appearing and disappearing, comments disappearing, and some posts and drafts for posts going missing. We’re working on moving to a new … Continue reading
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NO COUNTRY FOR LAY-MEN (MEH…)
A study in SJTREM suggests CPR according to the 2010 guidelines is harder to perform successfully than the previous 2005 guidelines.
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ACLS GOES ECMO
We had a young man with cardiac arrest brought in to our hospital. He had been alternating between VF and spontaneous circulation during resuscitation. As an emergency rescue attempt enroute, he had received thrombolytics. At arrival in our hospital, he … Continue reading
Posted in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care
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FARMACEUTICAL WHINING
After getting the 6S trial published in the NEJM, Anders Perner – the lead investigator of this multi center trial – has gotten angry letters from Fresenius Kabi, the producer of Voluven 130/0.4 HES. Fresenius Kabi had sponsored the Scandinavian … Continue reading
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