Category: Emergency Medicine

A collection of TBL summaries relevant to Emergency Medicine

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?

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

Torres

27 March 2015 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia and high inflammatory response, does the use of corticosteroids compared to placebo improve outcom

ProMISe

20 March 2015 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

In adult patients with septic shock, does early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) compared with standard therapy reduce mortality at 90 days?

CRASH-2

27 February 2015 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine 3 comments

In trauma patients with or at risk of significant haemorrhage, does the early administration of a short course of tranexamic acid (TXA) affect the mortality, incidence of occlusive events and the amount of blood transfused?

TRUST

20 February 2015 David Slessor Emergency Medicine One comment

In patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) does a novel accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) identify low risk patients suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin T (hs-cTnT)?

PROPPR

13 February 2015 Adrian Wong Emergency Medicine One comment

In patients with severe trauma and predicted to require massive transfusion, does the use of a transfusion protocol using a 1:1:1 ratio of plasma to platelets to red blood cells (RBCs) compared to 1:1:2 improve mortality?

CHEER

9 January 2015 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients who are in refractory cardiac arrest, does protocolised management involving mechanical CPR, Hypothermia, ECMO and early reperfusion improve survival rate?