Tag: HMP4
JC: Intravenous fluid therapy in critically ill adults (review). St Emlyn’s
The use of Intravenous fluid therapy and the controversies around them have been a theme of the blog from the very beginning. From the early days when evidence increasingly pointed to the harms of starch …
JC: Are we getting cosy on the septic SOFA? St.Emlyn’s
Identifying, treating and prognosticating patients who attend the Emergency Department with infective symptoms, is part of the bread and butter of an emergency physician’s practice. It’s important that we identify patients that will develop …
Holy Smokes! Batman, the SOFA and the Latest Sepsis Definitions
We can be a confused bunch when it comes to sepsis. We have seen definitions, debates and controversies as to how we treat and what we treat. Today a new definition was unleashed on the …
JC: The end for potatoes on the ICU…?
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 published in the NEJM this …