Category: Emergency Medicine

A collection of TBL summaries relevant to Emergency Medicine

Waldman

26 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with corneal abrasions, is topical tetracaine, compared with saline, for 24 hours a safe and effective analgesic?

Jacobs

In patients with cardiac arrest does adrenaline, compared to placebo, improve survival to hospital discharge?

Villanueva

20 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients who present with an upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleed, does a restrictive transfusion goal compared with a liberal transfusion goal affect mortality?

Olasveengen

19 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does removing the use of intravenous medications improve survival?

Hagihara

18 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with out-of-hospital (OOH) cardiac arrest is the use of adrenaline, compared to not using adrenaline, associated with an improved mortality?

SAFE Study

13 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

Does fluid resuscitation with albumin, compared to saline, affect mortality for patients in the ICU?

HACA

12 May 2014 Duncan Chambler Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

In adults who suffer cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, does mild hypothermia compared with standard normothermia improve neurological outcome at 6 months?

Bickell

12 May 2014 David Slessor Emergency Medicine Leave a comment

In hypotensive patients with penetrating torso trauma, does a delayed fluid strategy, in comparison to an immediate fluid resuscitation strategy, lead to an improved survival?