JC: ECPR for refractory OOHCA. St Emlyn’s
the use of Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) has been considered by many resuscitationists as the next logical step in the management of cardiac arrest. But is it?…
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Musings form the evidence based journal club at St Emlyns
High dose vs. Low dose steroids in hospitalised COVID 19 patients. St Emlyn’s.
We’ve reported on the RECOVERY trial several times already on the blog. It stands out as the most important trial of therapeutics in hospitalised patients with COVID19. In the last …
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JC: Alternate defibrillation strategies in refractory VF. The DoseVF trial. St Emlyn’s
Early defibrillation is a key step in the management of cardiac arrest patients patients with VF/VT In many cases defibrillation does indeed revert the patient to a better rhythm, but …
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JC: Head up, mechanical and impedance device assisted CPR – does it make a difference? St Emlyn’s
Research in cardiac arrest management has improved a lot in recent years. We are now seeing large randomised controlled trials looking at specific therapies in the management of these critically …
TBI: The Final Frontier…
Summer hols and quiet times for many of us at present, so apologies for lack of posts. There is always stuff going on in the background however, and several of …
More on Calcium and blood products in trauma. St Emlyn’s
This week we have a nice paper that highlights some of the ongoing thoughts and controversies about the use of calcium in major haemorrhage protocols. Hopefully you’ve already read Iain’s …
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The FORCE study: St Emlyn’s
As someone who works across both PEM and adult EM it’s interesting to reflect on how the workload varies. These days my adult work is heavily skewed to complex majors …
JC: Association between delays to patient admission from the ED and all-cause 30-day mortality. St Emlyn’s
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes This paper is recently off the press and has already sparked both interest and debate here at Virchester and in the wider Emergency Medicine community. …