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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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Category Archives: Neurology
BP MANAGEMENT IN BRAIN BLEEDS – ATACH 2
A trial called ATACH-2 (Antihypertensive Treatment of Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage II), recently published in NEJM, is likely to temper the enthusiasm for aggressively lowering blood pressure in patients with intracranial bleeds.
Posted in Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Uncategorized
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BP MANAGEMENT IN BRAIN BLEEDS
There´s a nice Best BET mini review in EMJ April 2016. The authors ask if it is safe and beneficial to control hypertension in the acute/hyperacute phase (~<6h from presentation) in patients with acute intracerebral haemorrhage.
KANYE INTUBATE THIS GUY FOR ME PLEASE?
The decision to anaesthetise and intubate is not always an easy one. When learning to anaesthetise and intubate we are often told that a GCS of 8 or less is when the patient scores a tube in trauma. Reality is … Continue reading
THROMBOLYSIS FOR STROKE? THE IST-3 TRIAL
I am probably the last person on earth to read the IST-3 trial. In short, the authors’ conclusion of ´strong support for thrombolytics in stroke´ was pisspreik somewhat controversial and generated some discussion. Read this excellent post about the IST-3 trial and thrombolysis … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Medicine, Miscellaneous, Neurology
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EMERGENCY BURR HOLES
Expanding epidural and subdural hematomas present a challenge for the docs working in rural or smaller hospitals. Most of us don’t have the training or equipment to perform the potentially lifesaving decompression. An article in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, Neurology, Trauma
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WHY THE GLASGOW COMA SCALE HAS GOT TO GO
Whenever my colleagues or nurses ask me what GCS a patient has, I just make something up that sounds about right. Judging by their smirks I know they think that they know I didn’t check properly. The truth is far … Continue reading
Posted in Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Trauma
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