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Type II Respiratory Failure
A look at the BTS & ICS guidelines just realeased on the topic
Needle Thoracostomy
What's the best place to decompress a pneumothorax? Today we here from Zaf Qasim on some pearls about this topic'
Papers of March 2016
SHere is a overview of the papers that caught our eye this month and the accompanying podcast. As always make sure you go and check out the papers yourself as this is just a whistle stop tour to wet your appetite......
New NICE Guideline; MAjor Trauma
So NICE has published it’s guidelines on ‘Major trauma; assessment and initial management’, obviously it would be ideal for you to run through the full document yourself but to give you a flavour of the key points that we think will affect our pract
Status Epilepticus
Fitting is a really common reason to attend the Emergency Department. In the vast majority of cases the seizure has terminated before the patient arrives in the ED. But in some cases it’s still on going and by virtue of the length of time it takes for a
New: Papers of February 2016
Here is a overview of the papers that caught our eye this month and the accompanying podcast. As always make sure you go and check out the papers yourself as this is just a whistle stop tour to wet your appetite......
Anaphylaxis
This podcast covers anaphylaxis, have a listen and let us know what you think. Below are a few of the key take home messages, enjoy!
Push Dose Vasopressors; which to use?
Hypotension is a feature of many conditions affecting critically unwell patients in the emergency department. Foremost amongst these is septic shock, which we have looked at in a number of podcasts over the last few months; early use of vasopressors, in p
New: Papers of January 2016
Following on from your feedback from our user survey at the back end of 2015 there seemed to be a thirst for summary podcasts to compliment our papers of the week. So starting from now we'll be bringing you monthly round ups of the papers that caught our