Another Journal club, another fruity (or vegetable-y) discussion today. The recent large prospective RCT by the Scandinavian 6S trial group on HydroxyEthyl Starch vs Ringer’s acetate in severe sepsis was […]
JC: The end for potatoes on the ICU…? Read More
Check out our ICEM poster on this. So, I see this old chestnut is under discussion again. A couple of us from the EmergINg team brought a poster to ICEM on this
Superficial Venous Thrombosis: watch and wait or anticoagulate? Read More
We published an interesting BET in the EMJ earlier (open access version here) this year about the use of low molecular weight heparin for patients placed in below knee POPs
Should POPs be mixed with Heparin? Read More
Which patients with chest pain should we be investigating for acute coronary syndrome?
Acute Coronary Syndrome – Deciding Who To Investigate Read More
Is Venous Thrombo Embolism the most controversial area of EM practice at the moment? I think it might be as there is rarely a meeting or conference where the subject
Deep Vein Thrombosis – New NICE guidance Read More
Why would anyone want to work in Emergency Medicine?
Emergency Medicine as a career? Yeah, but no…… Read More
Tranexamic acid and CRASH-2 I was listening to the EMCRIT podcast today. As usual, it was absolutely excellent, but on this occasion, it was especially superb as Scott Weingart was
Tranexamic acid needs a make over Read More
We have just covered the following paper in our journal club at Manchester Royal Infirmary. The benefits and harms of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator within 6 h
JC: Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke – IST3 Read More
