Resuscitation

A 2022 journal club comparing anterior-posterior and anterior-lateral pad positions for elective cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. It reviews a randomised trial and asks how far its findings can be applied to emergency cardioversion or defibrillation for cardiac arrest.

Chris Gray reports from day two of the 2022 RCEM Spring CPD Conference. The highlights span emergency department delays, paediatrics, refugee health, modern slavery and exploitation, with sessions on documentation, medical examiners and giving evidence in court.

The 200th St Emlyn's podcast looks back at February 2022. Iain and Simon discuss resuscitation myths, airway management, resuscitative thoracotomy, advanced clinical practitioners and setting future research priorities.

A 2022 appraisal of RePHILL, comparing prehospital packed red cells and freeze-dried plasma with saline for traumatic haemorrhagic shock. It examines the neutral trial result, composite outcomes and patient selection, and asks what questions remain about prehospital transfusion.

Recordings and commentary from SASEM 2022 on evidence for emergency airway management, including cardiac arrest, video laryngoscopy and surgical airways. The post also includes talks on research from 2021 and troponin-based assessment of possible myocardial infarction.

Simon Carley's SASEM 2022 talk challenges familiar assumptions in resuscitation. The accompanying post explores airway management, chest drainage, calcium, transfusion and team behaviour, asking whether procedures are driven by patient need or clinicians' habits and preferences.