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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 turned consultants.
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LOW BP CUT-OFF IN BRAIN TRAUMA?
Is systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 90 the magic threshold in traumatic brain injury (TBI)? This observational paper goes through a large prehospital database, and found an association between lower systolic BP and higher mortality. This has created a lot … Continue reading
THE BIG SICK 18 RECAP
The Big Sick 18 #TBS18 conference is done and we’re catching up on sleep and all the impressions from a great week with learning, discussions and fantastic people, check out our programme on www.bigsick18.org – and here’s an excellent recap … Continue reading
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#TBS18 IS COMING – AVAILABLE SPOTS
The Big Sick conference #TBS18 is coming, and we’re getting fired up for three days of cutting edge critical care conference with top speakers and top delegates. We can’t wait to meet you all to learn and discuss and connect. … Continue reading
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TBS18, ZERMATT – Feb 7-9 2018
We have worked hard this year on something big that is due to kick off in February next year: TBS18, The Big Sick Conference – a small, social critical care conference with top speakers and deep medical engagement in the amazing alp village … Continue reading
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IMAGING CASE OF THE WEEK
Oxygen can be a real idiot sometimes… via @medschooladvice
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BIS: RELAX DON’T DO IT?
Recently saw BIS discussion re-surface. NICE recommends it, yet very few use it. We could make a long discussion about this, but the short version is we sometimes use it, despite its shortcomings. Its best use would presumably be in … Continue reading
Posted in Anesthesia
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TACTICAL TRAUMA 17 – October 10-11th 2017
A great Scandinavian conference is coming up October 10-11th 2017! In the small, but beautiful town of Sundsvall, Fredrik Granholm has managed to lure some of the great minds and presenters within tactical trauma and trauma care to gather there. … Continue reading
(UN)MOTTLING CREW
Iloprost is a powerful vasodilator, but I have never seen it used as an intravenous infusion to improve general microcirculation in septic shock, like in this interesting, albeit very small, case series from Intensive Care Med. In septic shock, one … Continue reading
Posted in Intensive Care
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O2 NOT NEEDED IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
There’s not much left of poor MONA. We’ve written on unnecessary O2 treatment before, ie the AVOID trial. And now, one of the large RCTs on the subject is out. The DETO2X-SWEDEHEART investigators (love the acronym) have published their findings … Continue reading
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INTUBATION IN ARREST – AGAIN
Another study on airway management in cardiac arrest was just published in JAMA. The study was done in Denmark, where all intubations elective and emergency are done by anaesthestetists. It was a retrospective study, where they matched intubated patients with … Continue reading