Critical care
Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) framework
269 interntional experts collaborated to form 40 point framework for critical illness which may help save lives, including those with COVID19.
Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Josef Dankiewicz, Tobias Cronberg, Gisela Lilja et el published a trial of normothermia vs hypothermia in out of hospital cardiac arrest in NEJM. BACKGROUND Targeted temperature management (TTM, therapeutic hypothermia) after cardiac arrest first came to use in clinical setting since the publication of two landmark articles in 2002(1,2). Earlier it was noted that persons … Read more
Basic Blood Gas Interpretation
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ECMO in refractory out of hospital VFib cardiac arrest
Yannopoulos D, Bartos J, Raveendran G, Walser E, et al published a trial in the Lancet about therapy in patients with out of hospital refractory ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. WHAT Phase 2, single-center, open-label, pragmatic, randomized clinical trial. WHERE University of Minnesota Medical Center (MN, USA) PATIENTS Adult patients (aged 18-75) with out of hospital … Read more