Podcast – January 2020 Monthly Round Up
The latest round up of the blog from Ian and Simon. Click on the links below to take you to each of the individual posts.
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Critical Care
Explore essential critical care topics, including sepsis, respiratory failure, haemodynamic support, and trauma resuscitation. Our evidence-based posts provide practical guidance on managing critically ill patients in emergency and acute care settings.
JC: D-K-hoorAy! New Paeds DKA guidelines
On Monday, the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes published interim guidelines on the management of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in our younger patients (under the age of 18). NICE
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2019 Novel Coronavirus (Wuhan) at St Emlyn’s
Thursday afternoon, I brazenly told my director that the coronavirus needn’t warrant immediate concern. I didn’t want to add to the typical hysteria that leads to people purchasing too many
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JC: Long lines for USS guided peripheral IVs. St Emlyn's
The placing of peripheral IVs is arguably the most common procedure that we do in the ED. However, although common, it’s not always easy and on those occasions when it’s
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JC: Critical Care Reviews day 2. #CCR20. St Emlyn's
In addition to the presentation of the VITAMINS trial and the PEPTIC trial we also saw a number of other papers presented. These are listed below, but have not been
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JC: The Vitamins trial. Hydrocortisone, Vit C and Thiamine (Marik protocol – or not?) in sepsis. St Emlyn's
You may remember the controversy about Paul Marik’s suggestions that a combination of Vitamin C, steroids and Thiamine (sometimes known as HAT1) is a cure all for sepsis. There were
JC: The PEPTIC study PPI vs H2RBs on the ICU. St Emlyn's
The PEPTIC study is a randomised controlled trial of a Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) vs. Histamine-2 Receptor Blockers for ulcer prophylaxis on the ICU. Think Omeprazole vs. Ranitidine as your
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JC: Critical care reviews meeting day 1 #CCR20. St Emlyn's
In addition to the breaking trials at the #CCR meetings a number of other important trials were presented that you should seek out and review. We’ve not done full critical
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