Freemantle
Do patients admitted to English NHS hospitals on weekend days, compared to those admitted during week days, have an increased 30-day mortality?
Continue reading »Category: Emergency Medicine
A collection of TBL summaries relevant to Emergency Medicine
SHOCK 2
Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (IABP-SHOCK II): final 12 month results of a randomised, open-label trial IABP-SHOCK II Trial Investigators.NEJM;2012,367(14)1287-96, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1208410 Clinical Question In patients with acute MI and cardiogenic shock, does intraaortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP) vs. medical therapy alone improve mortality? Design Randomised controlled trial Randomisation performed centrally via internet based program […]
Continue reading »Loubani
In patients who are administered vasopressor medication intravenously, what are the published reports on local tissue injury and extravasation?
Continue reading »FEAST
In paediatric patients with severe febrile illnesses, in a resource limited setting, do fluid boluses with albumin vs. saline vs. no fluid boluses affect mortality?
Continue reading »Lyon
In pre-hospital trauma patients undergoing rapid sequence intubation (RSI), does fentanyl-ketamine-rocuronium induction compared to etomidate-suxamethonium induction affect intubation success or haemodynamic responses to laryngoscopy?
Continue reading »Kumar
In patients with septic shock, what is the relationship between appropriateness of initial empiric antimicrobial therapy and survival?
Continue reading »PREOXYFLOW
Does High-flow therapy by nasal cannula (HFNC) improve the efficiency of preoxygenation before intubation compared with a high fraction-inspired oxygen facial mask (HFFM)
Continue reading »Gu
In adult patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock, is a single dose of etomidate for induction of anaesthesia, compared with any other induction, associated with a difference in mortality?
Continue reading »Bouwes
In patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest, can clinical examination, neuronspecific enolase (NSE), and median nerve somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs) predict poor outcome?
Continue reading »Lilja
In patients with out-of-hospital (OOH) cardiac arrest does a target temperature management (TTM) of 33°C vs. 36°C improve cognitive function
Continue reading »