Can you perform a life-saving thoracotomy without ICU, theatre, or specialist staff?
A new study from Cape Town shows it’s possible — and often successful — even in district hospitals facing high trauma burdens.
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Emergency Centre Thoracotomy in South Africa. Read More
A new review maternal and neonatal survival following resuscitative hysterotomy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This systematic review highlights survival rates, intervention timing, and implications for emergency and prehospital care.
This week, I read a great article in the EMJ by Dan Horner and Rich Carden on new resuscitation targets. notably the use of diastolic blood pressure. DBP is the
Is Diastolic Blood Pressure the New Resuscitation Target Read More
This blog post provides concise summaries of recent critical care trials, including HEMOTION, PREOXI, BLING III, CLASSIC, EVIDENCE, VICTOR, and PARAMEDIC-3. Each trial is examined for its key findings, strengths, limitations, and practical implications for clinical practice. The post aims to inform healthcare professionals about the latest evidence-based practices in critical care. #FOAMed
More trials from TBS 2025. (part 2) Read More
What is the impact of physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams on survival and mortality outcomes for critically ill and injured patients.
JC: Do physician led prehospital teams improve outcomes? Read More
This retrospective study explores the link between intra-arrest arterial blood pressure (IBP) and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
Should we use AP or AL pad position first for defibrillation in VF/VT cardiac arrest. Critical appraisal of an observational study in JAMA suggests a better outcome with AP, but there are many biases in this study. #FOAMed @stemlyns
AP or AL pad position for first choice shock in VF? Read More
This secondary analysis of the DOSE VF trial highlights double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) as a superior strategy over standard and vector change defibrillation for refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF)
Does the outcome from refractory VF differ from recurrent VF in DOSE-VF patients? Read More
