Some time ago I was teaching our foundation (most junior) doctors about sepsis with a focus on the interpretation of blood gases. The teaching session ran along the usual lines […]
How low can you go? Experiential learning at St.Emlyn’s Read More
I was absolutely delighted this week to attend the first day of the Retrieval 2014 conference in Glasgow. I first came across this conference in 2013 when I followed the
Paediatric sepsis: The first hour. PLUS St.Emlyn’s at #Retrieval2014 Read More
Last week we saw the publication of the ProCESS study suggesting that protocolised treatment of sepsis makes little difference to outcome. A little earlier we heard that cooling to 33C
JC: What has an awesome NNT of 5.8 for severe sepsis? St.Emlyn’s Read More
 Gosh, hardly a day goes by in the world of FOAMed without another tweet alerting me to the wonders of research. Today is no exception and despite being here at
JC: Is Early Goal Directed Therapy dead? St.Emlyn’s Read More
After much anticipation the new surviving sepsis guidelines have been published in critical care medicine. There will no doubt be much conversation, debate and discussion about this in the coming
New Surviving Sepsis Guidelines – What’s new? St.Emlyn’s Read More
So, JC time again. Today, someone chose this paper from CCM regarding antibiotic monotherapy compared against an empirical combination strategy for treatment of severe sepsis. So hot off the press
JC: Blunderbuss antibiotics in sepsis?? Read More
Journal club was interesting this week. The marvellous AR brought a paper along from the EMJ looking at the use of non-invasive tissue oxygen monitoring in septic patients. Aha, interesting
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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
