JC: The REST trial. St Emlyn’s
Some years ago I remember speaking to a rather well known intensivist who was advocating for the extracorporeal removal of CO2 in ICU patients. His logic was that in patients
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JC: CTCA for cardiac chest pain in the ED. St Emlyn’s
Computed Coronary Angiography (CTCA) has been advocated as a useful adjunct in the investigation of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the ED. Although we’ve made huge progress in the diagnosis
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Podcast – August 2021 Monthly Round Up
Our regular round up of the best of the blog from August 2021 with Iain and Simon.
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Top 10 Trauma Papers for Trauma UK conference. 2020-2021. St Emyln’s
It’s that time of year again when the Trauma Care UK conference comes around and I get to talk about 10 interesting trauma papers from the last 12 months or
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JC: The BASICS trial. 0.9% saline vs balanced solution. Does it matter?
I’ll admit that my long term clinical practice has been to prefer balanced solutions (in my case Hartmans) over 0.9% saline in the management of the critically ill patient. It’s
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JC: Non-invasive ventilation for COVID 19 patients. The Recovery RS trial. St Emlyn’s
I remember back at the beginning of the pandemic when we were seeing lots of patients arriving in the ED in extremis. The now familiar picture of the deeply hypoxic
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Podcast – June and July 2021 Monthly Round Up
Our regular round up of the best of the blog from June and July 2021. Some Aural sunshine for you in these Summer months (in the Northern Hemisphere at least).
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JC: The TTM2 trial. Normothermia or hypothermia post cardiac arrest.
A quick update on an TTM2 trial published in the NEJM last month. As part of the chain of survival it’s important to optimise the post resuscitation phase, primarily to
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