Some of the papers that caught our eye this month…..
Is risk stratifying TIA’s time well spent?
As we think about upskilling our airway skills in the ED this paper has a look at the safety in an adolescent age group.
Continuing the hot topic of not too little, not too much but just the right amount of oxygen please, this paper looks specifically at ECMO.
How your smartphone may be recording data that you REALLY need!
About to lyse a PE? Should you be doing it systemically or is it time to move to catheter directed thrombolysis?
How have outcomes in resuscitation changed over the last 5 years?
With the difficult presentation of an undifferentiated elderly patient with syncope; how much variability is there between our assessments and prediction of poor outcomes?
Should we grab the nearest laryngoscope during CPR or reach for the video?
You’ve seen it in the movies but should the ball point pen really be used as a last resort for a surgical airway??
How quickly do we need to hang the fluids in sepsis?
They bumped their head more than 24hrs ago, surely they don’t need a scan……..
How good are we at diagnosing UTI’s? Running through the dogma of making the diagnosis
We know what a great tool chest US is to diagnose heart failure but how good id it to monitor response to therapy?