Category: Summaries

A category to collect all the summaries, so that they can be used in menus and widgets. Please don’t expand this – “Specialties” and “Special Topics” have been created as a custom category sets for the clinical topics.

Subtle STEMI

19 August 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 3 comments

Are there specific ECG characteristics that can differentiate between anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and early repolarisation?

VASST

12 August 2016 Duncan Chambler Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

In adult patients with septic shock, does the addition of vasopressin infusion to a norepinephrine infusion compared to a norepinephrine infusion alone decrease mortality rate at 28 days?

VANISH Trial

5 August 2016 Steve Mathieu Intensive Care Medicine 4 comments

Does early vasopressin use reduce the risk of kidney failure in patients with septic shock compared with norepinephrine?

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

22 July 2016 Duncan Chambler Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

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 ?

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?