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March 28, 2016

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Type II Respiratory Failure
March 21, 2016

A look at the BTS & ICS guidelines just realeased on the topic

Needle Thoracostomy
March 14, 2016

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
March 01, 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
February 17, 2016

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
February 15, 2016

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
February 01, 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
February 01, 2016

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?
January 18, 2016

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
January 02, 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