TTL tips 5: Non time critical trauma handovers part 1.
Top tips for TTLs managing a non time critical hand over of a trauma patient into resus.
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Early Blood Pressure Targets in Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Background It’s pretty well agreed that management of blood pressure is really important in neurological injury. We usually think about this in terms of brain injury, but the general teaching
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Perimortem C-section from Incrementum: how to do it
Video from the perimortem c-section at Incrementum in 2025. #FOAMed @stemlyns
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Making Sense of the Latest Corridor Care Update: Red Lines and Resources
If you have worked an ED shift over the last year, you will almost certainly have faced this dilemma: an ambulance crew arrives with an elderly, frail, confused patient who
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TTL tips 4: Code Red
TTL tip 4 is about getting your CODE RED instructions right, by developing the right mindset about what you want to achieve and why.
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Ketamine vs Etomidate for Intubating Critically Ill Adults: What Does the RSI Trial Tell Us?
RSI trial ketamine vs. etomidate. No difference in outcome. Both cause cardiovascular instability.
Cough remedies: what actually works?
This is a festive break from my usual offerings on emergency toxicology, although you will note I lapsed a bit with dextromethorphan. My last post was on the SNAP regimen
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TTL tips 3: Giving Blood products? Think Calcium!
TTL tip number 3 reminds us to manage Calcium levels in all trauma patients, and especailly those receiving blood products.
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