Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... Direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin in patients with severe blunt trauma. Feeney JM. Injury. 2016 Aug Does the presence of an emergency physician influence pre-hospital time, pre-hospital interventions and the mortality of severely injured patients? A matched-pair analysis based on the trauma registry of [...]
This month we cover a paper looking at the role of early craniectomy for raised intracranial pressure, the outcomes associated with advanced airway managements in prehospital cardiac arrest and lastly at the utility on ETCO2 and consider if it's application decreases adverse respiratory events. This month our great sponsors ADPRAC our giving away a £30 iTunes voucher [...]
This week the British Thoracic Society have released an updated version of their guidelines on asthma. The document covers all aspects from diagnosis, treatment and follow up, in this podcast we briefly run through some of the aspects covered in the acute management section. Make sure you have a look at the full document that can [...]
In 2014 NICE updated their guidelines on Head Injury: assessment and early management. This included specific guidance for those patients on warfarin Guidance regarding the ongoing observation of these patients is not contained within the guideline but as with much of Emergency Medicine variation between departments and regions vary in the threshold to admit patients [...]
Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... How much does hypothermia following ROSC matter on arrival in ED? A low body temperature on arrival at hospital following out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest is associated with increased mortality in the TTM-study. Hovdenes J, et al. Resuscitation. 2016. Does advanced airway management prehospitally make a difference in cardiac arrest? [...]
Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month. We cover a paper looking at the potential benefits of ketofol over propofol for conscious sedation, the role of aggressive blood pressure reduction in haemorrhage stroke and finally a really interesting paper of PE thrombolysis in cardiac arrest. This month our [...]
Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... How much should we worry about that mild hyperglycaemia prior to discharge in ED? Discharge Glucose Is Not Associated With Short-Term Adverse Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients With Moderate to Severe Hyperglycemia. Driver BE. Ann Emerg Med. 2016 Is it time for cardiac arrest centres to [...]
Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month. We cover a paper looking at the significance of findings with the history, physical exam and imaging in subarachnoid haemorrhage to inform your work up. We look at another paper focussing on total body versus selective CT scanning in trauma and lastly [...]
So the long awaited new NICE Guidelines on Sepsis have just been released. I'm no sepsis expert, I'm not on a panel involved with the guidelines but I am someone who is going to be trying to use these guidelines everyday at work with multiple patients and I'm not the only one....we all are! NICE [...]
Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... Direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin in patients with severe blunt trauma. Feeney JM. Injury. 2016 Aug Does the presence of an emergency physician influence pre-hospital time, pre-hospital interventions and the mortality of severely injured patients? A matched-pair analysis based on the trauma registry of [...] 
This month we cover a paper looking at the role of early craniectomy for raised intracranial pressure, the outcomes associated with advanced airway managements in prehospital cardiac arrest and lastly at the utility on ETCO2 and consider if it's application decreases adverse respiratory events. This month our great sponsors ADPRAC our giving away a £30 iTunes voucher [...] 
This week the British Thoracic Society have released an updated version of their guidelines on asthma. The document covers all aspects from diagnosis, treatment and follow up, in this podcast we briefly run through some of the aspects covered in the acute management section. Make sure you have a look at the full document that can [...] 
In 2014 NICE updated their guidelines on Head Injury: assessment and early management. This included specific guidance for those patients on warfarin Guidance regarding the ongoing observation of these patients is not contained within the guideline but as with much of Emergency Medicine variation between departments and regions vary in the threshold to admit patients [...] 
Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... How much does hypothermia following ROSC matter on arrival in ED? A low body temperature on arrival at hospital following out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest is associated with increased mortality in the TTM-study. Hovdenes J, et al. Resuscitation. 2016. Does advanced airway management prehospitally make a difference in cardiac arrest? [...] 
Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month. We cover a paper looking at the potential benefits of ketofol over propofol for conscious sedation, the role of aggressive blood pressure reduction in haemorrhage stroke and finally a really interesting paper of PE thrombolysis in cardiac arrest. This month our [...] 
Some of the papers that caught our eye this month..... How much should we worry about that mild hyperglycaemia prior to discharge in ED? Discharge Glucose Is Not Associated With Short-Term Adverse Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients With Moderate to Severe Hyperglycemia. Driver BE. Ann Emerg Med. 2016 Is it time for cardiac arrest centres to [...] 
Here's a look at some of the papers that caught our eye this month. We cover a paper looking at the significance of findings with the history, physical exam and imaging in subarachnoid haemorrhage to inform your work up. We look at another paper focussing on total body versus selective CT scanning in trauma and lastly [...] 
So the long awaited new NICE Guidelines on Sepsis have just been released. I'm no sepsis expert, I'm not on a panel involved with the guidelines but I am someone who is going to be trying to use these guidelines everyday at work with multiple patients and I'm not the only one....we all are! NICE [...]