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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: December 2012
COMPRESSIONS-ONLY CPR AT LEAST NOT WORSE THAN TRAD CPR
Evidence proving compressions-only CPR is superior to the traditional CPR with rescue breathing is lacking. The studies that exist are inconclusive. Now a study in Circulation meta-analyses two of the older studies, and says there actually might be improved survival with … Continue reading
Posted in CPR, Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Medicine
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DRIP DROP
You might end up somewhere, sometime when you need to give a patient an infusion without an infusion pump to help you. We doctors don’t know anything about stuff like that. Nurses to the rescue!
ULTRASOUND AND PROGNOSIS IN CARDIAC ARREST
Point of care- and portable ultrasound is a silent revolution in emergency care. An article in Academic Emergency Medicine helps me understand what to expect when applying an echo probe in cardiac arrest, and what that means for the patient’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Medicine
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COMPARING CAPILLARY AND ARTERIAL ABGS
A study in AJEM compares arterial and capillary blood gases obtained from 187 patients. The authors conclude with how it ‘appears to exist a strong correlation between samples collected from the finger tip capillaries with arterial blood samples’. Who would … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Medicine
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LUNG PROTECTIVE VENTILATION STILL GOOD
Even if you don’t have ARDS or risk factors for ARDS, a lung protective ventilation strategy seems to be good for your patients according to a recent meta-analysis published in JAMA.
Posted in Anesthesia, Intensive Care
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COLLOIDS VS CRYSTALLOIDS
Synthetic colloids have gotten a beating lately. First, the Cochrane group released their meta analysis on evidence supporting colloid use. They found none. Then HES colloids got hit hard by the 6S and CHEST studies. Are there any good indications … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care
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