Month: July 2016

PROCAMIO

29 July 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 4 comments

In patients with wide QRS (probably ventricular) tachycardia, does intravenous procainamide compared with intravenous amiodarone reduce major adverse cardiac events?

HOT-ER

In hypoxic adults presenting to the emergency department, does nasal high-flow oxygen compared to standard oxygen therapy reduce the need for advanced respiratory support?

ATACH-2 Trial

15 July 2016 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 3 comments

In patients with acute intracerebral haemorrhage and who are hypertensive, does rapid lowering of systolic blood pressure compared to standard therapy improve patient outcomes ?

New affiliated website: www.ics.ac.uk

8 July 2016 Duncan Chambler News Leave a comment

We are pleased to share with our readers the news that the Intensive Care Society (UK) have re-launched their website. http://www.ics.ac.uk

REACT 2

8 July 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 11 comments

In patients with severe trauma does immediate total body CT scanning compared with standard workup with selective CT scanning, reduce hospital mortality?

The Swedish Spinal Stenosis Study

1 July 2016 Celia Bradford Peri-operative Medicine, Summaries One comment

In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis at 1 or 2 adjacent vertebral levels, with or without spondylolisthesis, what is the efficacy of decompression surgery compared with decompression and fusion surgery, on functional outcome assessed 2 years post-operatively?